Tag: coal
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Dangers of Water Privatization Emerge In the Wake of West Virginia’s Chemical Spill
By Matt Wasson It took a few days after a state of emergency was declared across nine West Virginia counties and one-sixth of the state’s population was told not to drink or bathe using their tap water for the national news media to discover a story of national importance occurring in the political backwaters of Appalachia. [caption id=”attachment_318240″ align=”alignnone”…
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Southern States Need to Divest From Coal and Invest in Renewable Energy
By Angela Garrone The cost of importing coal is a drain on the economies of Southeastern states, particularly in those states that rely heavily on coal-fired power. In an updated report, Burning Coal, Burning Cash the Union of Concerned Scientists use updated market data to determine just how much money is leaving the Southeast to…
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300,000 West Virginians Told Not to Drink Water After Coal Chemical Spill, 600+ Sick
Do you take sugar in your morning coffee? How about 4-methylcyclohexane methanol? A large spill of a chemicals used to remove impurities from coal occurred Thursday in Charleston, WV, contaminating the Elk River less than a mile upstream of the intake for the state’s largest drinking water treatment plant. As many as 300,000 West Virginia…
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Coal Chemical Spill Contaminates Drinking Water Prompting State of Emergency in West Virginia
By Kiley Kroh Residents of nine counties in West Virginia have been told not to use or drink their water after a chemical used by the coal industry spilled into the Elk River on Thursday. Gov. Tomblin (D-WV) declared a state of emergency as more than 100,000 customers, or 300,000 people, are without safe drinking water. [caption…
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Major Victory for Clean Water in Coal Export Battle
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington denied a motion to dismiss, allowing the Clean Water Act case to proceed against BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) for coal contamination of U.S. waterways. The Sierra Club, Puget Soundkeeper, Columbia Riverkeeper, Spokane Riverkeeper, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Friends…