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Activists wanted to clean up a coal ash dump. Dump sued activists for complaining
2016-06-03 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Four residents of a tiny Alabama town are fighting back against a giant landfill operator after the Georgia-based company, Green Group, filed a $30 million defamation suit against them. The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court to dismiss the suit on Thursday. Green Group operates a toxic coal ash dump in Uniontown, Ala., a small, mostly black community where half the residents live below the poverty line. The Arrowhead landfill draws coal ash - the sludge left by burning coal -...
Stream Restoration Update: South Ash Creek
2016-06-02 23:02:07| PortlandOnline
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Ash and debris delays return for 2,000 Fort McMurray evacuees
2016-05-30 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some 2,000 residents of wildfire-ravaged Fort McMurray, Alberta, will not be able to return home this week as planned because of the risks posed by debris and contaminants including "caustic" ash, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said on Monday. The city of 90,000 people was evacuated in early May as an uncontrolled wildfire ripped through some neighborhoods, destroying about 10 percent of the city's homes. It also forced around a dozen oil sands projects in the region to halt more than a million...
Appalachian coal ash richest in rare earth elements
2016-05-30 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A study of the content of rare earth elements in U.S. coal ashes shows that coal mined from the Appalachian Mountains could be the proverbial golden goose for hard-to-find materials critical to clean energy and other emerging technologies. In the wake of a 2014 coal ash spill into North Carolina's Dan River from a ruptured Duke Energy drainage pipe, the question of what to do with the nation's aging retention ponds and future coal ash waste has been a highly contested topic. One particularly entrepreneurial...
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Coal ash: time to take action
2016-05-23 11:00:00| Power Technology
The disposal of coal ash the by-product of coal-fired power generation is an increasingly hot topic in the industry. With the US producing 140 million tonnes of coal ash in 2015 alone and concerns being raised about operators ability to keep coa
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