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scienceblogs.com - 12/23/2008

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Category: Environment Posted on: December 23, 2008 2:15 PM, by PZ Myers When power plants burn coal to produce energy, the coal doesn't just vanish into the atmosphere to cause global warming. No, there's a substantial amount of left-over sludge called coal ash, a nasty mess that is enriched for ...

desmogblog.com - 12/23/2008

Massive Coal Ash Spill in Tennessee puts the lie to Clean Coal

— desmogblog.com — When it comes to PR spindoctoring there is always one surefire cure - reality. If you were... fooled by the multimillion dollar "clean coal" PR marketing campaign take a look at this video footage of a massive flood of toxic coal sludge from a dam ... (more) Massive Coal Ash Spill in Tennessee puts the lie to ...

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gristmill.grist.org - 12/27/2008

Clean coal | Gristmill: The environmental news blog

— gristmill.grist.org — NYT: " Coal Ash Spill Is Much Larger Than Initially Estimated " Initially authorities said there were... 2.6 million cubic yards of ash in the pond, and 1.7 million spilled. Now they're saying 5.4 million cubic yards have spilled -- more than double the ... (more) Clean coal | Gristmill: The environmental news blog

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Tennessee Guerilla Women: Environmental Catastrophe Strikes Tennessee

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Environmental Catastrophe Strikes Tennessee
Tennessee Guerilla Women — The long-awaited money for our falling-apart infrastructure comes too late for some of us: Tennessean: Flood of sludge breaks TVA dike Pharyngula: We're looking at a major environmental catastrophe, bigger than any oil spill, and most of the news media are silent about it. I checked CNN, MS-NBC, even Fox News…not a word. The local newspapers have a few articles, and the regional blogs are trying to follow it, but otherwise, I guess we're going to pretend it didn't happen.Huffington Post: Massive ...

Coal Front Group Sets Up Dirty ‘Blogger Brigade’ To Fight Reality
Wonk Room — ... and dirty reality of coal. Yesterday morning, a dike at the Kingston coal-fired power plant in Harriman, Tennessee broke, letting loose a deluge of about 500 million gallons of coal slurry into tributaries of the Tennessee River, destroying twelve homes and derailing a train. Watch the startling news footage: Now that’s something worth blogging about. Full email: More » ...

Hullabaloo — ... You're talking about hundreds of acres of toxic sludge, the residue plants create by burning coal to produce energy, which includes mercury, arsenic and lead, spilling into the tributaries of the Tennessee River, poisoning the water supply for multiple communities, including Chattanooga. ...