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Coal ash contaminates groundwater at some TVA power plants

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged coal ash, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A report by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Office of Inspector General found that the groundwater at some coal ash sites is contaminated with arsenic and other toxic pollutants and is a health hazard. Levels at the Gallatin plant site in Sumner County and at the Cumberland site, 50 miles northwest of Nashville, are at [...]

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ABC World News Covers Bokoshe Coal Ash Dump

Posted in Coal, Good Government, Toxics, tagged abc, ash, Bokoshe, Coal, coal ash, coal plant, diane sawyer, ok, Oklahoma, Poteau, Public Citizen, world news on March 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »

World News with Diane Sawyer is airing a segment tonight on the Bokoshe fly-ash dump in Oklahoma. Public Citizen first worked with the people of Bokoshe and others throughout Oklahoma back in 2008 to oppose the expansion of the Shady Point coal plant in Poteau, OK – the plant that dumps its coal ash in [...]

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Urgent Action Needed! – Coal Ash Battle in US Senate

Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged action, ash, Coal, coal ash, coal ash waste, Congress, EIP, Global Warming, landfill, senate, urgent, us on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Senate is about to hear legislation pertaining to coal ash waste regulation. There is an amendment proposed to slash EPA’s funding so that they cannot enforce safeguards at coal ash waste landfills. The following is a message from our friends with Environmental Integrity Project. Please take a few moments to contact your senator and [...]

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Federally enforceable protections from toxic coal ash are within reach

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Coal, coal ash, EPA on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

PLEASE HELP GENERATE 200,000 COMMENTS BY NOVEMBER 19th If you have not already sent your comment to the EPA. simply send it using the links below. We can win this! If you have been affected by coal ash contamination and have a personal or family story to tell, click here. If you do not have your [...]

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Coal Ash EPA Hearing in Texas

Posted in Coal, Energy, Good Government, Toxics, tagged Coal, coal ash, dallas, EPA, hearing, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas, tx, waste on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The EPA is holding hearings on newly proposed coal ash regulations throughout the country. One of the few places they’ve decided to hold a hearing is Dallas. Coal ash waste facilities have never been properly regulated, despite the fact that coal ash is full of toxic pollutants and carcinogens. This is due primarily to the [...]

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Want a Public Meeting on EPA Coal Ash Waste Rules – TAKE ACTION NOW

Posted in Coal, tagged coal ash, EPA, public hearing on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Requests for a public meeting should be submitted to EPA’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery by July 21, 2010. For a sample request letter and where to send it, click here.

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More Astroturf: “Faces of Coal” are actually IStock Photos

Posted in Coal, tagged american coalition for clean coal electricity, astroturf, clean coal, Coal, coal ash, coal ash slurry spill, coal ash spill, coal ash waste, coal industry, coal mines, coal mining, coal plant, Faces of Coal, mountain top removal on August 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Rule #1 for being an organization even pretending to be a grassroots movement: Actually have some grassroots supporters. Even manufactured outrage groups ginned up by Freedomworks or the Tea Bag people or United Health Care actually have people who believe and will regurgitate their corporate PR spin. But, presumably because the coal industry couldn’t find [...]

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Week-End wrap-up: global warming is REAL, coal ash “too dangerous”

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Barbara Boxer, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, co2, Coal, coal ash, coal ash slurry spill, coal ash spill, coal ash waste, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Kingston on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For any of you global warming denier trolls lurking out there, here you finally have it: ANOTHER final study that undeniably shows a link between manmade greenhouse gas emissions and the warming that has occurred. Yes, yes, and the sky is blue as well. AND the Earth revolves around the sun. I know most of [...]

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Texas Tops List of States at Risk From Toxic Coal Ash Waste

Posted in Coal, tagged coal ash, coal ash waste, coal combustion waste, daily texan, Dallas Morning News, eddie rodriguez, hb 1450, matt stephens, natural resources defense council, neighbors for neighbors, nrdc, randy loftis, toxic coal-ash waste, travis brown on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A while back we held a press conference to highlight the scale of Texas’ coal combustion waste problem. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently released a report which found that Texas is the worst state in the nation in terms of toxic coal-ash waste that will result from proposed dirty coal-fired power plants. I [...]

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Tennessee Coal Spill of 2008: Arguably the Worst Case of Environmental Degradation in US History

Posted in Coal, tagged clean coal, Coal, coal ash, Coal Spill, coal-fired power plants, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Exxon Valdez, Kingston, Tennessee Valley Authority on January 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Most people can recall or have at least heard of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. This event is cited as one of the most devastating environmental disasters to occur in US history, receiving much mediated and public attention. Yet, why is it that over the past few weeks there has been waning [...]

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