Archive for the tag 'Tennessee Coal Ash Spill'

Jan 12 2009

The Other Stuff

Published by ghile under Environmental Justice,Toxics

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 [...]

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Jan 08 2009

It Ain’t No Santa Claus

Published by ghile under Environmental Justice,Toxics

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 [...]

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