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Energy Firm Testing Transfer of Coal Ash Waste to Ohio Landfill
2016-10-20 01:31:00| Waste Age
The plan includes testing to load 70 to 80 tons of the power plant by-product onto barges will start in early November.
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Landfills Posture for New Business as Coal Ash Ponds Face Closure
2016-09-20 01:05:14| Waste Age
The sweeping demise of these impoundments will drive a radical shift in how billions of tons of coal ash are managed.
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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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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 -...
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