Sentences with phrase «coal waste dumps»

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.

Not exact matches

But since Trump has been in office, the GOP has used the CRA more than a dozen times to roll back Obama - era rules and regulations, including one to protect broadband consumer privacy, one to curb bribery and corruption in the energy industry, and one to stop coal companies from dumping waste into streams and waterways.

Wilson criticized Stefanik's environmental record, including for what she said was a vote to nullify the Stream Protection Rule, an Obama - era rule that sought to restrict coal companies from dumping waste into waterways.

You recently voted for repeal of a rule, existing federal rule that was aimed at preventing coal mining waste from being dumped into streams and rivers.

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».

, global transportation infrastructure, the effects of sea level rise on sea level toxic waste dumps (there are many) and the posited future of the further industrialization of China and India, which is to be largely (80 % by some estimates) to be coal powered.

Big Coal and its allies in the Bush administration had spent years fighting a rule that required mining companies to obtain permits before dumping waste into rivers.

How much do you figure it would cost the average coal - fired plant to remove the CO2 from its waste stream, instead of dumping it on the public?

Finally, your support of Dominion Power's policy of dumping coal ash liquid into rivers and burying coal - ash solid waste in unlined soils is a profound threat to human health and the environment.

It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).

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.

In December 2008, the Bush Administration approved a final rule that made it easier for coal companies to dump rock and other mine waste from mountaintop removal mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

Its an effort that would require shipping coal by rail to the coast, and dredging and dumping waste in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage site in order to expand ports and channels for shipping the coal to India.

Bear in mind that this listing factors in toxic air pollution — from coal and oil - fired power plants primarily — not dumped waste or contaminated land or such.

The invisible waste gas is dumped into the air by burning fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas.

«Meanwhile, toxic dumping continues to rise: in 2010 alone, power plants used unsafe and leak - prone coal ash ponds to dispose of wastes containing 113.6 million pounds of toxic metals, a nearly ten percent increase from 2009.

They want nuclear energy plants to be immediately competitive with highly refined, large scale coal plants that have been granted free access to the world's shared atmosphere as a waste dump.