Sentences with phrase «coal waste»

Those countries were allowed to create credits from activities like reducing fires in coal waste, or limiting gas emissions from the production of petroleum.

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CoalSwarm includes profiles of hundreds of coal waste sites.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

On the northeast coast there is talk of using coal wastes, and of chemically treating the millions of old tyres littering waste dumps and sinking them in «concrete boots».

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated that with the addition of the biofertiliser, biofuel crops can be successfully grown and — more importantly, sustained — even on coal waste highly contaminated with metal residues.

As coal waste grows, large reuse projects are taking place throughout the country, some with toxic consequences.

Three weeks later a second spill occurred in Alabama, further focusing the nation's attention on the potential dangers of coal waste disposal.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wants to weaken a rule that protects people like Mabette Colon from toxic coal waste.

Educational Foundation of America grant for «Addressing climate change through coal waste in the southeast»

So why does coal waste appear so radioactive?

But businesses say they already adhere to rules and laws when obtaining permits from state and local government before processing and reusing coal waste.

A report released by EarthJustice and the Sierra Club in early February 2011 stated that there are many health threats associated with a toxic cancer - causing chemical found in coal waste called hexavalent chromium.

Inside the bank, a contingent of protestors led by our friend Reverend Billy, in a symbolic action, poured a pile of mountaintop removal coal waste onto the floor in the bank lobby.

This particular tactic of political theater, of performance art, of spiritual statement, the delivery of coal waste directly to the lobbies of corporate entities associated with this environmental destruction, is an intervention that Reverend Billy and members of his Church of Life After Shopping (his thoughts on the rally here) have also carried out in New York City.

In response to demands from environmentalists as well as Senator Barbara Boxer (D - California), chair of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, the EPA made public a list of 44 «high hazard potential» coal waste dumps.

The activities include valley fills, roads, coal waste impoundments, and other discharges associated with surface coal mining.»

That means their money is funds sludge impoundments like Brushy Fork which is currently holding 7 billion gallons of coal waste above the Coal River Valley.

As a result of political horse trading at UN negotiations on climate change, countries like Russia and the Ukraine were allowed to create carbon credits from activities like curbing coal waste fires, or restricting gas emissions from petroleum production.

Last year, Hurricane Matthew spilled coal waste into the Neuse River and burst the dirt embankment of a cooling pond at the H.F. Lee power plant in Goldsboro, NC.

: The Story of Coal Ash Waste in our Backyard» by the Sierra Club North Carolina, state environmental inspectors discovered high levels of arsenic, iron and selenium in wetlands at the Arthurs Creek coal ash fill site in Northampton County in 2009, the 21 - acre coal waste site for E.ON's Roanoke Valley Energy Facility since 2004.

Early in the morning of Feb. 26, 1972, approximately 132 million gallons of liquid coal waste broke through a dam on Pittston Coal Company's facilities.

In Oakwood, Illinois, one neighborhood is seeing more than its share of polluted coal waste deposited within its borders.

Study finds dangerous level of hexavalent chromium at Progress Energy's Cape Fear and Asheville coal waste sites

Such aggressiveness on issues from coal waste to vehicle emissions has made Pruitt one of Trump's most high - profile and consequential Cabinet members.

We remain very concerned about the threat that coal waste ponds represent to their downstream neighbors, and will be following this story as it develops.

[1] When coal is mined and used to generate power, external costs include the impacts of water pollution, toxic coal waste, air pollution, and the long - term damage to ecosystems and human health.

To see a nationwide list of over 350 coal waste sites in the United States, click here.

The mining, processing, transportation, burning and disposal of coal waste is toxic, wasteful, and harms communities in Appalachia and across the country.

Plants grown in the coal waste with added biofertiliser achieved nearly twice the weight and yield of those grown in garden soil or in coal waste with added manure, and more than twice the weight and yield of those grown in coal waste with added zeolite.

In addition to the coal waste, the team is working with marginal soils, such as those in desert climates, which normally require large amounts of water and chemical fertilisers in order for plants to grow.

The coal waste contains chemical elements that can be ionised by the biofertiliser, making nutrients which are essential to growth available for uptake by the plants.

Using coal waste from the site of a former colliery in Nottinghamshire as a substrate, the researchers grew rapeseed, flax, sugar beet and maize, with different additives: manure, zeolite, lime, or biofertiliser, as well as coal waste alone and regular garden soil.

For some communities, using more coal waste on farms may reduce health risks associated with coal waste ponds.

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.

Coal waste.

Organic crops aren't fertilized with toxic sewage sludge or coal waste, or irrigated with E. coli contaminated sewage water.

In the U.S., a range of legislation and regulation at the federal and state levels governs miner safety, coal mine reclamation, coal plant siting, thermal pollution from coal plant cooling, coal combustion emissions, and disposal of coal waste.

Educational Foundation of America grant for «Addressing climate change through the elimination of coal waste»

In addition, there are dozens of wiki articles on particular impacts, from coal waste to mercury emissions.

KINGSTON, Tennessee (CNN)-- The Environmental Protection Agency has found high levels of arsenic and heavy metals in two rivers in central Tennessee that are near the site of a spill that unleashed more than a billion gallons of coal waste.