Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Without a doubt coal is dirty and dangerous. Consider that the nation's power plants spew out 130 million tons of coal combustion waste every year. Much of this so-called coal ash, which is what's left at the bottom of the smokestacks after coal gets burned...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Information obtained from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reveals the existence of nearly twice as many toxic coal ash dumps across the country as the agency previously indicated to the public. The results of NRDC's recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request -- filed jointly with Sierra...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Since late December last year, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation's largest public utility, has been spending about a million bucks a day cleaning up more than a billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge that spilled out of a holding pond...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
I've traveled all over this great land but I've never been to Indiana. Perhaps that's just as well. An illuminating and alarming news report details all the ways in which Indiana is flirting with a coal catastrophe. Consider this: Indiana's...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Since the day the waste storage pond broke at the TVA power plant in Tennessee, deluging downstream communities with toxic coal ash sludge, NRDC has been following the issue, assisting our local partners and pushing federal officials to respond. To...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
[Photo of TN spill courtesy of Chris Irwin, United Mountain Defense] Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama. These are the states where the most coal ash waste is stored in ponds, like the one in Tennessee at that TVA power plant that recently blew out and buried downstream...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Imagine an Olympic size swimming pool brimming with highly toxic waste. Now imagine over 1,600 such sludge-filled pools -- or about a billion gallons. That's how much liquified coal waste -- "fly ash" -- broke through an earthen dike at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant...continued→
