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Official: Coal ash deadlines straining environmental agency
2016-01-14 04:36:24| Waste Management - Topix.net
A coal ash cleanup law has stretched staff members at North Carolina's environmental regulation agency "to the absolute breaking point" as they analyze voluminous data to meet deadlines, a top agency official told lawmakers Wednesday. Tom Reeder, assistant secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality, made the remarks as part of a status report on storage sites for the residue created when power plants burn coal.
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Category:Energy and Environment