Sentences with phrase «toxic coal sludge»

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.»

In a 2004 flood, much of Gunnoe's ancestral home was destroyed and her yard was covered in toxic coal sludge.

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.

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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.

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

This ash and sludge consists of coal ash, limestone, and many pollutants, such as toxic metals like lead and mercury.

It also makes economic sense: All those reservoirs filling up with coal ash day after day are just problems waiting to happen, and if we're just waiting for catastrophes to happen before we do something, the true cost of burning coal isn't being internalized properly; local citizens and people downstream of those rivers end up paying for it with their health and by losing their local environment (what if your family house was buried in potentially toxic sludge?).

In addition to coal, CMD's SourceWatch wiki includes portals on toxic sludge, the financial crisis, front groups, and tobacco.

The film lays out in disturbing detail the damage caused by the coal industry to Appalachia over the past decades: a million acres of forest destroyed, 2,000 miles of streams buried and 300 million gallons of toxic sludge spilled.

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

That's home to the 2000 sludge flood, where 308 million gallons of toxic sludge broke from a coal impoundment.

Regulations for storage of millions of tons of coal ash around the country — leftover toxic sludge of the sort that spilled over hundreds of acres of eastern Tennessee in 2008 — remain in limbo.

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?

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.

Coal, just the sludge is so toxic it can make thousands of acres a wasteland in minutes.

Coal - burning power plants, for example, produce millions of tons of toxic sludge every year, and we're stilling reeling from the impacts of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill that rocked the Gulf of Mexico.

This processing creates coal slurry, or sludge, a mix of water, coal dust and clay containing toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and chromium.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

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But the prospect of another coal ash spill covering hundreds of acres with toxic sludge is enough to keep anyone concerned.