Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger

Thursday, December 15, 2011 Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger Just days before the three-year anniversary of the devastating dike failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Environmental Protection Agency still has little authority to regulate the storage of toxic coal ash produced as a byproduct of coal power. A new report released Tuesday shows coal ash's harmful environmental effects are more widespread than previously understood. Barbara Boxer 'Shocked And Appalled' By NRC 'Witch Hunt' Brazilian Prosecutors Seeking $10B From Chevron For Oil Leak Enviros, Locals, Tribes Spar Over Wisconsin Mine Bill WATCH: NASA Looking To Harpoon Comets By 2016 Man Finds Sleeping Bear In Basement BLOG POSTS Heinrich van den Berg: Photo Tip: Spotlight on Spots Dave Murphy: Video: Farmers March With Occupy Wall Street, Sowing the Seeds of Hope and Democracy We must continue to stand together, rural and urban, farmer and eater, to advocate through our right of peaceful assembly to reclaim, rebuild and transform our nation to protect our health, our land and our democracy. Benjamin Healey: Subsidies for Renewable Energy: American as Apple Pie It is a simple and straightforward falsehood when established energy industries or special interests describe renewables as sops for federal money. Rather, the renewables industry is getting relatively less government help, not more, than traditional competitors. Michael R. Bloomberg: The Mercury Moment Coal-fired power plants and the pollution they produce are the number one threat to our public health and the environment. This is not an issue of jobs versus the environment. It's an issue of the American people's public health versus a narrow special interest. Jerome Bettis: It's Time to Clear the Air: EPA's Clean Air Rules Save Lives Any attempt to block or delay implementation of the Toxics Rule is an assault on public health. It's time to stop allowing special interests to run interference on rules that will benefit our country.

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