Sentences with phrase «coal sludge into»

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.»

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More than 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge were released into a Tennessee community when a dam collapsed last December, causing a massive coal - ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal - burning power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The toxic sludge is often stored in open impoundments (huge ponds) or injected into abandoned coal mines, causing major concern over drinking water contamination.

But are you really arguing that coal plants don't push a toxic sludge back into the waters that then carry that toxic sludge into the rest of the ecosystem?

Instead I took three weeks off from writing the Carbo and dumped my time into writing about the Tennessee Valley Authority's coal ash sludge spill.

In 2008, coal ash flooded into the American psyche when a coal ash dam burst at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tennessee — burying the local environment and community beneath 1.1 billion gallons of toxic sludge, a $ 3 billion clean up job.

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.

This time a coal ash sludge holding pond sprung a leak into Widows Creek.