By Anne Paine • THE TENNESSEAN • November 3, 2009 is considering designating coal ash from power plants as hazardous material if it's kept wet, and non-hazardous if it's moved to a dry landfill. The new option was included with... [read full story]
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An expanded LG&E ash pond next to the Ohio River in Trimble County would have 100 foot tall walls and store more ash than burst across hundreds of acres in Tennessee last year. The ash pond, part of LG&E’s expansion of its...
By Anne Paine, The Tennessean The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering designating coal ash from power plants as hazardous material if it's kept wet, and non-hazardous if it's moved to a dry landfill. The EPA has...
TUES 11/3 | The Government Accountability Office finds that 26 coal-burning power plants have reported spills or other unpermitted releases of coal ash from 35 surface impoundments over the past decade.
Your help is needed to assure that coal ash—a toxic, dangerous waste—is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA promised to regulate coal ash after more than 1 billion gallons of it burst from a Tennessee...
Tom Adams, Environment, Waste, Environmental Damage, Hazardous Waste, North America, United States of America, Tennessee
