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Communities Uneasy As Utilities Look For Places To Store Coal Ash
2016-07-05 15:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Broadhurst Environmental Landfill in Wayne County handles waste from southeast Georgia and would like to bring in coal ash by rail from out of state. The Broadhurst Environmental Landfill in Wayne County handles waste from southeast Georgia and would like to bring in coal ash by rail from out of state. Outside Susan Holmes' house in southeastern Oklahoma, visitors are welcomed by an entryway lined with oxygen bottles and a machine that collects and concentrates oxygen from the air. "I take...
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Coal ash bedevils Oklahoma town, revealing weakness of EPA rule
2016-07-04 01:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Public Integrity: Here in the land of wind-whipped, rolling plains, the gray dust, which sparkles in just the right light, seems inescapable. Residents of this town near the Arkansas line say they have spotted it on their grass, trees, ponds, barns, furniture and cars. The source of Bokoshes enduring misery is coal ash, an often-toxic byproduct of burning coal for electricity. Clouds of it, swirling like tornadoes at times, descend upon people while they sit in their yards and mow their lawns. The powdery material...
Coal ash fears stoke fight over southeast Georgia landfill
2016-07-03 15:06:29| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WABE: Peggy Riggins, a retired high school teacher and counselor in Jesup, Georgia, is on a mission. On a hot, bright day in the southeast Georgia town, shes going from business to business, asking people to join and donate to her cause: fighting a plan to bring thousands, maybe millions, of tons of coal ash to the local landfill. Coal ash is a byproduct from burning coal for electricity. It can contain toxic materials, like mercury and arsenic. Nationwide, utilities generate more than 100 million...
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Republic Seizes Opportunity with Ash Metal Recovery Facility at a Washington Landfill
2016-06-28 14:47:00| Waste Age
The facility is set to process all newly delivered ash to the Roosevelt Regional Landfill as well as systematically process all of the existing ash currently in the landfill. read more
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TVA will cap coal ash impoundment
2016-06-20 14:05:54| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Daily: The Tennessee Valley Authority has determined that capping the coal ash impoundment at the Colbert Fossil Plant is the most economically feasible option, a decision that does not sit well with some environmentalists. TVA announced last week in its final environmental impact statement that it will cap and close 10 coal ash impoundments at six different coal-fired power plants, including its Barton facility in Colbert County. In the study, TVA said it plans to spend $280 million to clean up the...
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