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tallying toxic threats
Congressional watchdog issues update on coal ash regulation efforts 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still does not know the exact number of coal ash dumps at the nation's power plants, but it's moving ahead with plans to regulate them. -
The risky plan to dump coal ash in an old Tennessee mine 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago A company is pushing a plan to use dry coal ash from the Kingston plant to fill an abandoned coal mine in Tennessee -- but environmentalists are raising concerns about the proposal's health risks. -
Double the trouble
EPA reveals almost twice as many dangerous coal ash dumps as previously known 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released information showing there are 584 coal ash dump sites across the country -- almost twice as many as previously identified.
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ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Study details health risks from TVA’s spilled coal ash 0
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks agoExposure to dust and river sediment in the area of the massive coal ash spill from the TVA's Kingston power plant could present a health risk to local communities, found a new study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
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ashes to ashes
Crackdown on coal ash 0
Posted 4 months agoThe crazy quilt of regulations governing coal ash disposal across the United States got a new patch this week when North Carolina lawmakers passed a law requiring stricter regulation of coal ash impoundments.
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alabama's ashhole?
Decision to dump TVA’s spilled coal waste in Alabama community sparks resistance 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks agoThe EPA approved a plan last week to dump 3 million tons of coal ash that spilled from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in eastern Tennessee in an impoverished, largely African-American community in Alabama.
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smoke in the water
Coal ash contamination imperils July 4 festival goers in Tennessee 0
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Slip Slidin' Away
Was the Tennessee coal ash disaster really a once-in-a-lifetime event? 0
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
A new report from an engineering firm hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority identified factors behind last year's disaster that unleashed more than a billion of gallons of toxic ash from a massive storage pond at the federal company's Kingston plant. It claims that the disaster was a one-of-a-kind event -- but skeptical coal ash watchdogs are calling for a more thorough investigation by federal authorities.
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Audit finds Tennessee Valley Authority misled on ash spill disaster 0
Posted 5 months ago The Tennessee Valley Authority's Inspector General released a critical audit this week on the federal company's response to last December's massive ash spill disaster at its Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee's Roane County. The incident involved a failure in a coal ash containment pond that released more than a billion gallons of toxic waste into a nearby community and river.
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Hot potato
Pennsylvania rejected TVA coal ash that’s going to poor communities in Alabama and Georgia 2
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago Some of the more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash that spilled from an impoundment at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee last December is making its way to landfills in poor and black communities in Alabama and Georgia, as we reported last week at Facing South.
It turns out that TVA also looked into sending the waste to Pennsylvania for dumping into abandoned mines -- but that state's Department of Environmental Protection rejected the ash as substandard.
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