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 Stories About: coal AND energy AND toxics AND US EPA
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Turns out toxic heavy metals are, um, toxic
EPA determines coal waste raises cancer risk |
David Roberts |
07 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The waste from burning coal -- coal combustion products, or CCPs, like coal ash and boiler slag -- contains toxic heavy metals like mercury and cadmium. But don't worry, the coal industry says that the concentrations aren't high enough to do anyone harm. Taking the coal industry's word for it, the U.S. EPA decided in 1993 and again in 2000 not to regulate CCPs as hazardous waste. As a consequence, the coal industry isn't all that careful with CCPs. Using a composite l ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Just Breathe
Facts and figures on air quality and Latino health in the U.S. |
Kathryn Schulz |
17 Jun 2005 |
Counter Culture |
| 14 -- percentage of total U.S. population of Latin American descent in 2004 (projected)1 Shouldn't she be breathing easy? 92 -- percentage of the U.S. Latino population living in urban areas in 20002, 3 80 -- percentage of Latinos living in counties that violated at least one federal air-pollution standard in 20022 57 -- percentage of non-Latino whites living in counties that violate at leas ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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That's Hot
States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the 'hot spots' they'll create |
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19 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| That's Hot States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the "hot spots" they'll create A coalition of 11 states filed suit against the U.S. EPA in federal court yesterday, charging that the agency's recently issued mercury emissions rules, which establish a "cap and trade" system whereby coal-fired power plants can trade pollution credits, pose an unacceptable threat to publi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Heavy Metal Madness
Pombo eggs on mercury debate with controversial report |
Amanda Griscom Little |
24 Feb 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Pombo says: Eat up! House Resources Committee Chair Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) -- longtime bete noire of the environmental community -- cooked up what appears to be some fishy science in a report released last week titled "Mercury in Perspective: Fact and Fiction About the Debate Over Mercury" [PDF]. The report -- written not by scientists but rather by aides to Pombo and a ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, fishing, mercury, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, National Wildlife Federation, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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