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E.P.A. Lists ‘High Hazard’ Coal Ash Dumps

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/science/earth/01ash.html?hpw

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/science/earth/01ash.html?hpw

The Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of 44 "high hazard" coal ash dump sites. The list encompasses 10 states. The states of North Carolina, Arizona and Kentucky had the highest amount of sites. Originally, the Department of Homeland Security had censored the list. However, Lisa P. Jackson decided to release it finding no substantial threat to national security.
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6 comments // E.P.A. Lists ‘High Hazard’ Coal Ash Dumps

  • cabinettags
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    • Is there nothing that can be done with this ash besides dumping it? It has no commercial value what-so-ever? I burned a coal stove one year and have seen lots of clunkers.

      Could this not be crushed and used in, say, concrete building blocks? At the very least could it not be made into blocks itself, for a safer disposal/storage so it doesn't leak into the ground water? Would that be so terribly hard to reduce this risk? Why just dump it?

      And speaking of dumping it, what are out nuclear power plants doing with the core rods? Making those things into bricks won't help much.

    • 3 years ago
  • pjacobs51
  • cabinettags
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    • cabinettags:

      Thanks pj. Isn't that typical? Here we're dumping the stuff, a lot of it ash, it's putting deposits in the water table and causing health hazard when we COULD be putting it in concrete blocks. Concrete costs money. The plants dumping this stuff would at least give it to you for free, if not pay you for removing it.

      duhhhhh We need a few mental heavyweights in charge of this.

    • 3 years ago
  • sickinjersey
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    • yeah, DHS censored distribution of my grandma's oatmeal cookie recipe too...everything had a terrorist hiding behind it under the Bush administration.

      Good for Ms. Jackson. She is for REALLLLLLLLLLLL

    • 3 years ago
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