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·29/6/2009 - EPA relents, discloses list of high-risk coal ash sites, McClatchy Newspapers
·23/6/2009 - A Plea To President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining, The Huffington Post
·11/5/2009 - Tennessee: EPA to oversee cleanup of TVA coal ash spill, Associated Press
·21/3/2009 - Critics question safety of storing coal slurry, Associated Press
·9/3/2009 - EPA Orders Utilities to Self-Report Coal Ash Impoundment Problems, Environment News Service
·9/3/2009 - Tennessee: TVA Submits Corrective Action Plan for Ash Spill Recovery, Environment News Service
·8/3/2009 - Tennessee: Dredging ash spill could release selenium, poison fish, Knoxville News Sentinel
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·The Greenpeace Case Against Coal-Fired Power Generation
·Global Finance: Take Action Against Coal
·Reality - There is No Such Thing as "Clean" Coal
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- 1. Coal ash disposal becomes burning issue for Alabama Rank: 76%
- on with little public notice. But the Dec. 22 collapse of a dike at an ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, about 35 miles west of Knoxville, has opened debate on how utilities handle the huge volume of toxin-laden coal ash captured by their power plants' pollution-control devices. The TVA spill sent more than 1 billion gallons of coal ash cascading through the countryside, wrecking homes, covering streets and burying more than 300 acres in a gray sludge. It...
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- 2. Coal-ash disposal a "toxic" issue Rank: 76%
- than a month, the question of how to dispose of coal-combustion waste has gone from a largely ignored issue to a pressing national environmental concern that has sparked legislative proposals and the prospect of new regulation. Since the Dec. 22 coal-ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Kingston Fossil Plant, which poured a billion gallons of toxic material over 300 acres, lawmakers and regulators have said the federal government should revisit an issue it has deliberated...
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- 3. Coal-Ash Spill May Cost Utilities Billions in Rules Rank: 76%
- Group, in a telephone interview. Power generators and ash recyclers predicted a push in Washington for more rules. "There have been a handful of smaller spills over the years, but nothing like this one," said David Goss, director of the American Coal Ash Association in Aurora, Colorado, in a phone interview yesterday. "I expect the spill will raise a lot of questions about how coal ash gets stored. We could see new regulations at the federal level." The Senate Committee on Environment and...
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- 4. Giant Toxic Coal Ash Spill Threatens Animals Rank: 76%
- Spill Threatens Animals It's been called the Exxon Valdez of coal ash--a wakeup call for a fossil fuel industry. But the recent toxic ash spill in Tennessee is greater in scope than the 1989 oil spill, and despite what some conservationists are calling very real threats, the ash disaster has so far inspired apparently little concern for local wildlife. On December 22 a billion gallons of poisonous sludge--largely coal ash, a byproduct of coal burning--broke through an earthen dike at the...
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- 5. United States: After coal ash spill in Tennessee, some see potential... Rank: 75%
- Tennessee, some see potential for trouble at Buck Steam Station Duke Energy's Buck Steam Station has three coal ash ponds that are similar to the one that ruptured Dec. 22 in eastern Tennessee. Are impoundments at Buck, which cover some 119 acres, a ticking time bomb of toxic waste? Duke Energy says the company's coal ash ponds systemwide have passed annual and five-year inspections and are in compliance with all existing laws and regulations. "All ash basin inspections to date have been...
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- 6. Coal-Ash Spill: Unclean Coal's Consequences Rank: 75%
- Unclean Coal's Consequences For years, environmentalists have called for safer disposal of coal ash, a by-product of coal-fired electrical generation. Late last month, a massive spill of the substance demonstrated - in hideous, gray detail - what happens when warnings go ignored too long. The scope of the disaster near Kingston, Tenn. - a city that "overflows with nature's beauty," as its Web site proclaims - is still being assessed, but serious trouble has been documented already. Reports...
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- 7. Tennessee coal ash spill highlights broad gaps in government... Rank: 75%
- spill highlights broad gaps in government oversight Last week's collapse of a coal-ash dam in Tennessee revealed nationwide gaps in how the government oversees construction of power plant impoundments and how regulators watch over the country's largest source of industrial waste, environmental groups and safety experts say. Despite years of study - and prodding by the National Academy of Sciences and Congress - there are no federal standards for coal-ash waste disposal or dam construction....
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