CNN Covers Tennessee Coal Sludge Disaster (w/ Erin Brockovich)

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 06:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkFmwRzp1j8   Posted on YouTube: July 11, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 11, 2009 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 1622

 
CNN - July 10, 2001: CNN catches up to DU and reports on America's Worst Environmental Disaster - Erin Brockovich Is Interviewed.

[Neoma]

1. Crap...

:(

[quidam56]

2. Wise County, Virginia is getting more sludge ponds,

thanks, Gov. Kaine, Congressman Boucher and the Wise County Board of Supervisors. Our environment is toxic enough already. http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138 There are communities here that are becoming a mountaintop removal mining site.

[avaistheone1]

3. There goes Obama's plans for clean coal.

[Lorax7844]

4. k and r

[valerief]

5. 44 coal ash dumps

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/epa_reveals_loc.php
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coal_waste#EPA.27s_List_of_44_High_Hazard_Potential_Units

[slipslidingaway]

8. Thanks for the links :) nt

[snake in the grass]

6. But, but, I thought...

...the industry would always regulate itself.

[slipslidingaway]

7. FFC wastes are categorized by EPA as a "special waste" and have been exempted...

from federal hazardous waste regulations under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)..."

http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/industrial/special/fossil/


Fossil Fuel Combustion (FFC) Waste Legislative and Regulatory Time Line
http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/industrial/special/fossil/regs.htm


Background: The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
http://www.chemalliance.org/tools/background/back-rcra.asp


EPA High Hazard Coal Ash Waste Sites, by the Sierra Club

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=112389588369372150174.00046d8608de1514fc539&z=5

"On June 29, the Environmental Protection Agency released a list of 44 coal ash waste storage sites deemed "high hazard" by the Department of Homeland Security. Check out our map to see how close you are to one.

Two weeks earlier, EPA refused to release the list of sites because DHS had deemed a national security risk.

This release came on the heels of a Freedom of Information Act request from the Sierra Club and a coalition of organizations. The coalition believed the public has a right to know about these high risk sites - especially after the devastating coal ash spill in Harriman, Tenn., in December 2008..."


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

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

"...“T.V.A. ranked its own dams, and it didn’t rank any of its dams ‘high hazard,’ ” said Lisa Evans, a lawyer for Earthjustice. A spokeswoman for the authority, Barbara Martocci, said she did not know who had classified the sites on the list. The classification system was developed by the National Dam Safety Program.

Ms. Evans said dam integrity was not the only or even the central problem with coal ash dump sites. In 2007, an E.P.A. report identified 63 sites in 26 states where the water was contaminated by heavy metals from such dumps, including three other Tennessee Valley Authority dumps. Experts say coal ash should be stored in lined landfills to prevent contamination, but the agency questionnaire did not ask whether the sites were lined.

David Merryman of the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation in Charlotte, N.C., said two of the sites on the “high hazard potential” list discharge into Mountain Island Lake, the primary source of drinking water for 750,000 people in the Charlotte area. Those sites, which belong to Duke Energy, are unlined ponds...

Under the Obama administration, agency officials have pledged to issue regulations by the end of 2009.

But Stephen Smith, the director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, said withholding the list, even temporarily, raised questions about the agency’s intentions..."

[slipslidingaway]

9. Recommended n/t

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.