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Plant Scherer and the coal-ash pond, as seen from Luther Smith Road. Credit: Rita Harper, special to ProPublica In December 2008, four months after Andrea's second relative died of leukemia ...
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Coal ash is often doused with water for quick cooling and dumping, but the sludge is highly toxic and can seep into aquifers. ... The EPA states there are 663 active ponds serving 321 plants and ...
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The Boswell plant is Minnesota Power's largest electricity source. Its two operating coal-fired units are capable of producing 932 megawatts of electricity.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration accelerated the pace of its environmental rollbacks for the country's coal-fired power plants Monday, proposing to weaken two Obama-era rules aimed at cleaning up dangerous heavy metals and ash from coal plants and keeping them from washing into groundwater
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Though the new ruling stops short of mandating wet-to-dry conversions for coal ash systems, dry systems do offer plants the benefit of eliminating both surface impoundments and their associated ...
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Environmental groups challenged that rule, arguing it left a large amount of coal ash waste unregulated by the federal government. The rule issued Thursday forces owners to safely close inactive coal …
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The barren fields where San Miguel Electric Cooperative has buried coal ash could be converted into a solar power generation plant. Facebook; ... We urge San Miguel to continue this solid decision-making and follow through with closing its coal plant and mine and adequately remediating the land so that South Texans will also enjoy the …
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The toxin is widespread throughout the U.S.; the American Coal Ash Association found nearly 130 million tons of coal ash was generated in 2014, and the Sierra Club reported coal ash waste is ...
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In the rule changes announced Monday, plants could have up to three more years to close unlined coal ash ponds, which can leak contaminants into surrounding …
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"The new rule builds on a landmark 2015 rule prohibiting coal ash from being permanently stored in places where it comes into contact with groundwater. This was meant to reform the widespread practice of creating so-called coal ash ponds where the toxin is stored in a wet slurry. While at that time the EPA only applied the rule to coal plants in …
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A proposal announced Wednesday would for the first time require safe management of so-called coal ash dumped in hundreds of older landfills, "legacy" ponds …
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Coal ash is disposed of or used in different ways depending on: 1. The type of by-product. 2. The processes at the plant. 3. The regulations the power plant has to follow. Some power plants may dispose of it in surface impoundments or in landfills. Others may discharge it into a nearby …
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The First National Regulations. The EPA Administrator signed the Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities final rule on December 19, 2014, and it was published in the Federal Register (FR) on April 17, 2015. This rule finalized national regulations to provide a comprehensive set of requirements for the safe disposal of …
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On Sunday, CNN published "Gambling 'America's Amazon,'" an investigation on a toxic coal ash pond in southern Alabama that experts say threatens one of the …
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However, in 2018, the regulations were rolled back, allowing industry and the individual states to regulate their coal ash. Other countries where coal is a major source of energy have no standards regulating coal ash. ... For this study, we wanted to obtain information from participants who lived adjacently to the power plants and coal …
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The other stream is water used to wash coal ash out of the bottom of power plant furnaces. The 2015 rule barred the discharge of ash waters. Monday's revisions allow utilities to discharge up to ...
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A final rule strengthening and updating the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for coal-fired power plants, tightening the emissions standard for …
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The EPA said it found power plants actively disposing of coal ash in areas outside regulated units, and 42 instances where companies managing the coal ash blamed groundwater contamination on ...
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The power plant converted to natural gas in 2016 but still has a 57-acre coal ash landfill and 2-acre impoundment "coal ash pond," where ash is mixed with water. According to the report, which based its findings on company coal ash disclosures, parts of the landfill were built on top of an old, unlined landfill.
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The action on coal ash was among dozens of public health and environmental mandates that were weakened, rolled back or eliminated under former President Donald Trump. U.S. coal plants …
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Few people have heard of coal ash. But U.S. fossil fuel plants produce 140 million tons of the stuff every year in the process of combusting coal, making it the nation's second-largest waste ...
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The aim of this study was to prepare a Si-K-based amendment by coal gangue and plant ash and clarify its feasibility for improving the growth of maize plants in saline soils.The Si-K-based amendment was prepared by mixing the coal gangue and plant ash and calcining at 500–900 °C for 0.5–2.5 h. A pot experiment was carried out to …
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Fact Sheet: Coal Ash What Tis Coal Ash? Coal ash, also referred to as coal combustion residuals or CCR, is produced primarily from the burning of coal in coal-fired power plants. Coal ash includes a number of by-products produced from burning coal, including: • Fly ash, a very fine, powdery material composed mostly of silica made from the
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Shortly before it rolled out its updated CCR rule, EPA also proposed more stringent standards for wastewater discharges from coal-fired power plants related to CCR pollution, an update to another of its 2015 rules which had implemented national pollution limits on wastewater discharges from power plants for the first time. [21]
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The power plant converted to natural gas in 2016, but still has a 57-acre coal ash landfill and 2-acre impoundment "coal ash pond," where ash is mixed with water.
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The Kingston Fossil Plant was the site of the worst environmental spill ever in the U.S. in December 2008 when 1.1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from a ruptured coal ash pond at the ...
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COHASSET, Minn. — Multiple state and federal agencies are working together following a massive spill of coal ash wastewater from a northern Minnesota energy plant. Minnesota Power said the leak ...
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For decades, utilities disposed of coal ash — the hazardous substance left after burning coal for energy — by dumping it in unlined ponds and landfills. Earthjustice analyzed industry data to explain, state by state, how and …
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When applying coal ash to your plants, be sure to spread it evenly and avoid getting it on the leaves. Coal ash can be caustic, so it is important to wash your hands after handling it. Benefits of Using Coal Ash for Plants. Coal ash can provide a number of benefits for plants, including: Increased nutrient availability.
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It's also why more coal plants were retired in the first 10 months of 2015 than in any calendar year since—utilities contemplating ... Coal ash impoundments exempted from the 2015 EPA rule ...
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