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EPA: Coal Ash Poses Significant Health Risk

October 28, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
coal, coalash, coalpollution, coalspill, coalwaste, dirtycoal, EPA, powerplants

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

Bad News for Coal is Good News for Us

February 13, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
coalpower, dirtycoal, efficiency, energyefficiency, powerplants

Previously I blogged about Big Coal's very bad week.  Well, it looks like it's shaping up to be a very rough year for the industry -- cheers to that!  Now the governors of Wisconsin, South Carolina and Georgia are jumping on...continued

Rob Perks
Rob Perks
Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
Washington, D.C.
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and...
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