Sentences with phrase «coal combustion waste»

It was considered a model of successful recycling of coal combustion waste until tests of nearby groundwater wells discovered arsenic and lead levels exceeding drinking water standards, according to city water tests.

Long - time residents of the area, they know first - hand the effects of living near the plant and its piles of dry coal combustion waste, or coal ash.

Progress Energy owns two of the sites, both of which store coal combustion waste for the Asheville Plant located in North Carolina.

Nationally, at least 42 percent of coal combustion waste ponds and landfills are unlined.

The billions of tons of coal combustion waste produced by power plants needs to be stored somewhere, often in waste sites that are inadequately engineered to avoid dangerous spills or leaching of hazardous chemicals into groundwater supplies.

This is happening to thousands of Americans right now — and the toxic waste is coal ash, the by - product of burning coal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and aluminum.

39 environmental groups have drafted a letter asking the Obama administration to «reject a pending federal rule that will make it easier to dispose of coal combustion waste from power plants in abandoned mines» and tighten rules regarding coal ash disposal.

Over a ten year period, approximately 380,000 tons of coal combustion waste generated by coal - fired boilers at a Bunge North America Corporation facility was dumped into a ravine adjacent to the Grays Siding neighborhood.

Coal combustion waste contains many toxic chemicals and heavy metals, which are known to cause birth defects, reproductive disorders, neurological damage, learning disabilities, kidney disease, and diabetes (9).

Monroe Power Plant ranked number 5 on the list, with 4,110,859 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.

Furthermore, the December coal ash spill in Tennessee makes it clear that there is no adequate means of safely storing coal combustion waste.

Progress Energy's Asheville Plant ranked number 69 on the list, with 411,793 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.

It is the largest component of coal combustion waste, totaling around 70 million tons annually in the United States.

«Currently the U.S. produces 130 million tons of coal combustion waste every year.

In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.

[8] In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.

The prison's immediate surroundings, according to the investigation's 2014 report, No Escape: Exposure to Toxic Coal Waste at State Correctional Institution Fayette, include about 40 million tons of waste, two coal slurry ponds and millions of cubic yards of coal combustion waste.