One year later; No EPA decision on Coal Ash

Tristan Fowler — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:57:24 EST

It’s been a little over a year since an environmental catastrophe 100 times larger than the Exxon-Valdez spill hit a Tennessee town of just over 5,000 people, and the regulations promised to prevent it from occurring again are still being debated. Coal ash – a carcinogenic mixture of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and selenium – spilled over 300 acres, burying fifteen homes and contaminating a river in Kingston, Tenn. Coal or fly ash, which is the waste leftover from burning coal, isn’t defined as a hazardous material and its disposal isn’t regulated by the EPA. During EPA director Lisa Jackson’s senate confirmation hearing last year, she told Senator Barbra Boxer that she’d consider regulating coal ash.

The question on everyone's mind

SoCapBen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:39:58 EDT

...was thankfully addressed today by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies when it convened a panel on "The Economics of Internet Advertising: Implications for the Google-DoubleClick Merger." I attended that panel, and this is my story.

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One year later; No EPA decision on Coal Ash

The question on everyone's mind