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TVA seeking comment on coal ash storage facility closures

2016-01-25 15:31:37| Energy - Topix.net

The Tennessee Valley Authority is planning to close coal ash storage facilities at its coal-fired power plants and is asking for the public to comment. A draft environmental impact statement is available online and looks at the impact of closing the facilities in place or closing by removal as well as the impact of closing 10 facilities within three years.

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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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Pickens County Planning Commission Suspends Permit for Proposed Coal Ash Landfill

2016-01-13 22:02:00| Waste Age

Greenville Online The Pickens County Planning Commission has suspended the land use permit granted for a landfill company after learning that it plans to use it for coal ash disposal. read more

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Kentucky Utilities, LG&E closing several coal ash ponds

2016-01-13 16:37:45| Energy - Topix.net

Prompted by new federal regulations, the state's two largest utility companies are closing several storage ponds that collect the coal ash burned by power plants. Kentucky Utilities says it will spend $678 million to meet federal environmental requirements involving coal ash ponds.

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