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• Alabama County Has Among Highest Food Stamp Usage

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 138
       Perry County is on the list of the top fifteen counties in America when it comes to residents receiving food stamps, according to a story about food stamps in The New York Times . An interactive map included with the story shows several other Alabama Black Belt counties also having high rates. ...
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• County board approves coal ash dump in leaky quarry

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 649
  The area around Wolverine Power Cooperative’s planned coal plant in Rogers City features unique limestone geology with sinkholes and unpredictable groundwater flow. State officials and environmental professionals have warned that this leaky limestone geology makes landfills especially dangerous. Glenn Puit of ...
  3 days ago

• From coal ash to concrete

  
  theCLog — Authority: 488
  Don’t forget: Renew, reuse, reduce, rethink, recycle. We’ve only got one livable planet — so far; be kind to her. Unfortunately the coal ash at Charlotte’s two unlined, high-hazard coal ash ponds — located on Mountain Island Lake just upstream from where Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities sucks our drinking ...
  4 days ago

• Attorney Demands Halt to TVA Coal Ash Shipments

  
  The Locust Fork News-Journal — Authority: 428
  An aerial view of the Arrowhead Landfill in Marion, Alabama…by Glynn WilsonAn environmental lawyer in Alabama is demanding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issue an order halting the shipment of toxic coal ash from Tennessee to a landfill in the Black Belt’s Perry County.David Ludder, formerly of the ...
  1 week ago

• The Long-Awaited Perry County Coal Ash Suit...

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 138
  ...has been filed, according to The Birmingham News online...alleging the Arrowhead Landfill does not have the proper permit because it is allowed to dispose of solid waste, but there is leachate from the landfill that ends up in a tributary of the Cahaba River. The suit asks the court to halt the shipment of ...
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• Coal’s Dirty Little Secret: Toxic Coal Ash in Prince George’s County.

  
  CCAN Blog — Authority: 123
  Today, coal’s dirty little secret is revealed in a pretty rural portion of Prince George’s County, Maryland.  CCAN, Defenders of Wildlife, Patuxent Riverkeepers and Sierra Club filed a notice of its intent to sue the Mirant Corporation for toxic discharges emanating from their coal ash landfill in Brandywine, MD ...
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• TVA Gets Permission to Further Pollute Clinch River

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 129
  Its not enough that Tennessees Clinch River was devastated by a toxic spill that dumped 1 billion gallons of coal ash into its waters last December. Now the Tennessee Valley Authority wants to systematically pollute the river (which leads to the mighty Tennessee River) to the tune of one million gallons a day of toxic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Effects of coal ash contamination go beyond health risks

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  When environmental watchdogs in Iowa point out the dangers associated with coal ash disposal , the focus of their fear is usually the health risks associated with contaminated groundwater. The Waterloo South Quarry, used by the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University as a coal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Property owner near TVA ash spill site ‘living in hell’

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 130
  The outfall keeps on turning, turning, … as this newspaper report from Norfolk, Va., recounts.
  2 weeks ago

• VIDEO: Coal ash dumping may have caused deformities

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 119
  Video by Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald Staff According to the Miami Herald, “ Villagers in the Dominican Republic claim children have been born without limbs and organs. And, they are blaming the abnormalities on rock ash dumped by a Virginia coal company .” More from MiamiHerald.com : A civil lawsuit filed ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Struggle of Our Environmental Neighbors

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 649
  Marvin Gaye once sang, “Oh, mercy mercy me/Oh, things ain’t what they used to be/No, no/Where did all the blue sky go?/Poison is the wind that blows/From the north, east, south, and sea/Oh, mercy mercy me…” This song came to…
  2 weeks ago

• West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection: 2/3 of Coal Ash Damns Need Repairs

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 565
  Ken Ward Jr. reports on the wonders of coal : Nearly two-thirds of the coal-ash dams across West Virginia might need repairs, and a quarter of them are ranked as being in poor or unsatisfactory condition, according to a report released Thursday by the state Department of Environmental Protection. DEP inspectors ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clean Coal in the Dominican Republic

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 565
  Clean Coal is awesome : It has been six years since a contractor from Delray Beach brought the black dusty residue to the province of Samaná, and three years since the ash was cleaned up. Several civil lawsuits and criminal cases later, just when everyone thought it was over, the other shoe has dropped. A civil ...
  3 weeks ago

• Coal Ash & Birth Defects

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 138
  Hey, Im not saying the story has merit, only that its worth reading for Alabamians, since were accepting millions of tons of coal ash at that landfill in Perry County...now there may, may be a coal ash-birth defect link. Read the story here . The Arrowhead Landfill owners (who live in Atlanta) insist their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bright & Early: Disaster Tourism Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 475
  Good morning, Nashville. Roane County may be putting the kibosh on the TVA’s plans to build an overlook for passers-by to view the progress on the coal ash cleanup . According to county officials, the TVA never consulted them before developing the viewing area which is supposed to include a parking lot big enough ...
  3 weeks ago

• Drawing an Arbitrary Line in the Coal Ash

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 129
  When is hazardous coal ash not considered hazardous? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, when you dump it in a landfill as opposed to a pond. This approach is currently being floated by the EPA in its plans to regulate coal ash later this year. Coal ash—the waste left over after coal is burned at ...
  3 weeks ago

• EPA to Regulate Mercury Emissions, May Tag Coal Ash ‘Toxic’

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 616
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering labeling coal ash as toxic waste, while the agency moves to regulate mercury emissions at coal-fired power plants.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a 230-page report on coal ash that comes 10 months after a spill of 1.1 billion ...
  4 weeks ago

• Burning The Future: Coal In America (Trailer)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  Burning The Future: Coal in America, a documentary from director David Novak, investigates the raging conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virgina, and by examining the devastating health and environmental risks created by mining, debunks the myth of “clean coal”.  Just by watching the ...
  5 weeks ago

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