Jan 12 2009
With the news of a second coal ash spill, this time in Alabama, a lot more attention needs to be paid to the issue. Devilstower, writing in Daily Kos, has an important must-read personal account of fly ash in his home town. Devilstower concludes: Right now most of [the] cost is paid by the people in small towns [...]
Jan 08 2009
Annika Mengisen of The New York Times Freakanomics blog has this informative array of pictures from the Tennessee coal ash disaster, taken by a reader, Dorothy Griffith, a photographer who lives in Banner Elk, North Carolina, on Christmas Day. It’s worth a look … UPDATE (January 8, 2009): Tennessee Republican Congressman Zach Wamp, who [...]
Dec 30 2008
Dave Burdick of The Huffington Post has a solid review of the status of the Tenessee coal ash spill, and what comes next. Check it out …
May 12 2008
Last week, friends of the environment lost a leader at the much-too-early age of 53. Joseph Egan was a nuclear engineer turned lawyer who, among other cases, led the state of Nevada’s effort to block a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. Now ten years after the facility was to have opened but for the efforts [...]
