Sentences with phrase «coal sludge»
"Coal sludge" refers to a thick, muddy liquid waste that is produced when coal is washed or processed. Full definition
In 2000, it was responsible for the worst environmental disaster in Southeastern history when a slurry spill released over 250 million gallons of coal sludge in Martin County, Kentucky.
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The scope of the waste stream coming out of coal - fired power plants is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution and nearly 280 billion pounds of toxic coal sludge dumped into our environment every year.
A sludge dam breach in Martin County, KY, in 2000, sent more than 300 million gallons of toxic coal sludge into tributaries of the Big Sandy, causing what the EPA called, «The biggest environmental disaster ever east of the Mississippi.»
West Virginia resident Junior Walk (pictured at the right) talked up going to Marsh Fork Elementary School, which was only a few hundred yards away from a massive coal sludge impoundment.
In a 2004 flood, much of Gunnoe's ancestral home was destroyed and her yard was covered in toxic coal sludge.
In 2000, 300 million gallons of coal sludge, a by - product of mining, poured out of a containment pond and poisoned the flora and fauna of Coldwater Creek in eastern Kentucky.
Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal waste.
A wave of coal sludge 30 feet high flooded 16 communities down Buffalo Creek Hollow.