by faster | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: AP DATE: October 16, 2020 SNIP: The Trump administration will let some leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash storage ponds stay in operation for years more and some unlined ponds stay open indefinitely under a rule change announced Friday. The move by the...
by faster | Oct 31, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: October 31, 2019 SNIP: The Trump administration is expected to roll back an Obama-era regulation meant to limit the leaching of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury into water supplies from the ash of coal-fired power plants,...
by faster | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Politico DATE: August 26, 2019 SNIP: More than 100 storage sites for coal-burning power plants’ toxic leftovers lie in areas that federal emergency managers have labeled a high risk for flooding, according to POLITICO’s examination of government and industry...
by faster | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Daily Climate DATE: March 6, 2019 SNIP: New data shows arsenic at levels 372 times greater than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s threshold for safety in groundwater an hour northwest of Pittsburgh. The cancer-causing pollutant is leaching...
by faster | Mar 4, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News and The Guardian DATE: March 4, 2019 SNIP: Almost every coal-fired power plant in the US is contaminating groundwater with unsafe levels of toxic pollution, according to the first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of coal ash waste...