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Press Release - NRDC Urges Immediate Clean Up and Stronger Regulations of Coal Waste (flag)
www.nrdc.org — EPA should prohibit the construction of new surface waste impoundments and the expansion of existing impoundments, and promptly study the integrity of existing impoundments, including requirements to ensure that risky facilities be promptly close in order to eliminate long-term threats. EPA ...

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Senate Hearing Today on Tennessee Sludge Spill
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC — ... The public and environmental health implications of these ash dumps are pretty quickly coming to light--and a push for better regulations of coal ash waste is coming fast and hard from many environmental and public advocacy groups.  NRDC Senior Scientist Dr. Allen Hershkowitz had this to say: ...

Sen. Boxer Jabs TVA Over Coal Ash Spill
Switchboard, from NRDC — ... blog, this hearing follows a damning New York Times story yesterday exposing how power plant waste lagoons all over the country are not subject to federal hazardous waste standards.  Astoundingly, landfills that hold household waste are more regulated than these coal ash waste dumps, which contain toxic chemicals -- like arsenic, lead and mercury -- that pose safety risks to the environment and human health. NRDC issued a statement prior to the hearing outlining our recommendations to implement strong standards for ...

Household Trash Is Managed Better than the TVA’s Coal Ash
Switchboard, from NRDC — ... It's time to change that. The EPA should designate coal ash as a hazard and establish strict pollution controls for all coal ash dumps. In the meantime, the TVA should provide free medical testing for all the families who request it in the region near the disaster. No one should become ill because of the TVA's or the EPA's failures. ...

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