Sentences with phrase «spilled coal waste»

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

A waste containment dam break spilled 160,000 cubic meters of coal ash into the Partizanskaya River and the Nahodka Bay watershed from a ring dike disposal site near Partizansk in the Russian Far East 200 kilometers east of Vladivostok in May 2004.

RUSSIA A waste containment dam break spilled 160,000 cubic meters of coal ash into the Partizanskaya River and the Nahodka Bay watershed from a ring dike disposal site near Partizansk in the Russian Far East 200 kilometers east of Vladivostok in May 2004.

After the 2008 spill, county officials had pushed TVA to stop using impoundments to store its coal ash waste, and the company is reportedly in the early stages of transitioning to dry ash storage and closing its wet impoundments.

Today the AP writes: «While the spill of ash from burned coal contains arsenic and potentially carcinogenic heavy metals, it is not regulated as hazardous waste.

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.

In early February, a coal ash waste pond on the banks of Dan River began to spill its toxic contents into the river.

The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.

A major spill of coal ash in Tennessee in 2008 drew attention to the issue, and in 2010, the EPA proposed regulating coal ash under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), either under RCRA's hazardous waste provisions, which would give EPA more extensive authority, or under the non-hazardous waste provisions.

• A rider that would prevent the EPA from labeling the toxic ash left over from coal combustion as hazardous waste — something that would no doubt alarm the people of Kingston, Tenn., buried by a coal - ash spill in 2008.

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

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

The EPA has dragged its feet long enough, say environmental groups who filed a lawsuit yesterday to force the agency to finalize new regulations for the containment and disposal of coal ash — the toxic solid waste from coal plants that most people had never heard of before the TVA spill in Tennessee in December 2008.