Traffic_Is_Er_Was,
If you read the article you would have seen it did no more than report the situation as stands today in harvesting fossil fuels. It is investigative journalism and as everyone knows you don't need to be a scientist to do that.
Maybe you can list the parts of the article you dispute. Is it the number of deaths related to coal mining, the number of black lung sufferers, the annual oil drilling fatalities ,the number of oil transportation accidents or is it something else? Do you genuinely think finding the figures for the headings I've listed require a science degree?