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First U.S. Coal Ash Rule Disappoints Environmental Groups
2014-12-21 05:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The first national regulations to provide for the safe disposal of the ash left after burning coal to produce electricity were announced Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. After years of delaying action on issuing a coal ash rule, the EPA was under a court order to issue new safeguards by December 19. On that date, the final rule for coal combustion waste was issued under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The National Resources Defense Council, NRDC, and other environmental...
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EPA coal ash standards a setback for environmental groups
2014-12-20 11:31:29| Energy - Topix.net
In this Monday, Dec. 29, 2008 file image provided by Greenpeace, coal ash slurry left behind in a containment pond near the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant is shown in Harriman, Tenn., after the dyke at left broke Dec. 22, 2008. The Obama administration is under court order to unveil the rule Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 ending a six-year effort that began after the massive spill at the Tennessee power plant in 2008.
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E.P.A. Issues New Rules on Disposal of Coal Ash
2014-12-20 04:06:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced the first federal guidelines for disposing of coal ash, instructing power plants to implement safeguards against contaminating nearby water supplies. But the agency did not require many of the restrictions that had been urged by environmentalists and other advocates, who point to studies showing coal ash the material that remains when coal is burned to produce electricity contains a significant amount of carcinogens. This rule is a pragmatic...
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Coal ash is not hazardous waste under U.S. agency rules
2014-12-20 01:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In a disappointment to environmentalists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued rules on Friday labeling coal ash, a byproduct of coal-based power production containing toxic materials such as arsenic and lead, as non-hazardous waste. The label means that states and environmental groups taking legal action, and not the EPA, will be the primary enforcers of the first-ever federal rules targeting coal ash, which will require the closure of some coal ash holding ponds leaking contaminants...
New EPA Standards Label Toxic Coal Ash Non-Hazardous
2014-12-19 22:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new national standards designating coal ash - a nearly ubiquitous byproduct of coal-fired power plants that contains arsenic and lead - as non-hazardous waste. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports that coal-fired power plants produce more than 130 million tons of the coal ash each year and they have long stored millions of tons of it in giant ponds. But many of those ponds have failed in recent years, allowing contaminated water to get into rivers and...
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