Will we ever know the real damage of the coal ash dam burst in Tennessee? If the TVA, the Clean Coal groups and the EPA has its way we won't. The EPA has not mandated how coal ash should be disposed of if the power plant in not on an actual mining site. This is despite the fact that coal ash is the nations largest industrial waste product. One would think that with all the amount of metals and chemicals left over in coal ash that we would at the very least require this to be in some type of spill proof encasement. Because the energy industry has enough power and money they have lobbied the government and stalled any progress on stricter regulations. This has to stop. This is not the first of these to burst and will not be the last. There are massive impoundments in West Virginia that have had problems for years. Some of these hold up to 9 billion gallons of waste. Time to clean this crap up and dispel the "clean coal" myth.
Maybe this dam burst is a good thing.
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Coal is dirty from the moment any mining operation begins until possibly forever; just the same as nuclear power producing uranium. There are better alternatives than either, but no one wants to spend the big bucks to develop them. No wonder I stay pissed.
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