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Mapping the health toll of mountaintop removal
A new mapping tool helps illustrate the serious health impacts of a particularly destructive form of coal mining.Image: Facing South Appreciate this post? Please donate & share below. Donate »...
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Clean water advocates criticize limited EPA hearing on coal plant water...
After proposing a rule to clean up toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants, the EPA holds a single public hearing -- but dramatically limits its scope. Environmentalists cry foul.Image: An aerial...
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Federal court orders EPA to get moving on coal ash rules
A federal judge has sided with environmental and public health groups that sued to force the Obama administration to issue regulations for the disposal of the toxic waste left over after burning coal...
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Coal ash polluting NC river was once Appalachian mountaintops
Before its coal-fired units were shuttered in 2012, Duke Energy's Dan River plant burned coal from mountaintop removal mines in Appalachia. The reality that the arsenic-laden ash now contaminating a...
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Is a Duke Energy power plant making nearby residents sick?
That's the question an environmental advocacy group raises in a new video about Duke Energy's Belews Creek power plant in Stokes County, NC. The video intensifies the spotlight shining on the company's...
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Remembering Appalachian folksinging legend Jean Ritchie
Born into a renowned Kentucky ballad-singing family, Ritchie went on to earn fame for preserving old songs and composing original tunes protesting the destructiveness of coal mining. She died earlier...
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NC communities facing coal ash dangers unite for action
People from across North Carolina whose lives have been affected by coal ash pollution have joined forces to launch the Alliance of Carolinians Together Against Coal Ash. The coalition plans to press...
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Torrential rain raises concerns at Duke Energy coal ash dams
Days after announcing a settlement with the utility over its widespread coal ash pollution, N.C. officials were monitoring two of its high-hazard dams holding back millions of tons of the toxic power...
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N.C. produces flawed study to dismiss cancer-cluster fears near Duke Energy...
After local residents began raising concerns about cancer clusters near Duke Energy coal ash waste pits, the state cancer registry conducted a study that it claims shows there's no cause for worry —...
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