Thread: 82,000 Tons of coal ash spill into North Carolina river

A burst pipe at one of them triggered the disaster two years ago this week and led officials to re-examine how they plan to cope with similar dangers at basins around the country.

The nation's cleanup price tag, which utility customers may be asked to pay, already is pushing into the billions.

Pipes burst - Go Solar for electricity instead of cutting subsidies, suppressing clean energy forms. Big gas & oil still receive subsidies & tax exemptions. If Keystone pipeline is allowed by next president there will be pages of eminent domain takings & pipelines do break. The toxicity of oil, gas, coal are fueling cancers to our populace. These industries are greedy & reckless - don't like to pay for their disasters either.

Meet America's super polluters

. . . Across the country, the top 100 facilities releasing greenhouse gases — almost all of them coal plants — collectively added more than a billion metric tons to the atmosphere in 2014.


A third of the toxic air releases in 2014 from power plants, factories and other facilities came from just 100 complexes out of more than 20,000 reporting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.


A third of the greenhouse-gas emissions reported by industrial sites came from just 100, too. Some academics have a name for them: super polluters . . .

@ http://www.alipac.us/f9/trump-transi...pruitt-341359/

DuPont to pay $50 million over mercury dumped in river

This may not be popular, but I don't see a reason for us to continue to use coal in this country. I do realize there are jobs at stake, but as necessary and good, I don't see it.

We have plenty of oil and gas - personally I would like to see more use of natural gas. I understand it isn't too expensive to convert to gas from coal.

Alternative energy should be developed. With all that, we don't need coal right now. Why not leave it in the ground. Should, (can't imagine) our situation make it necessary, we will have it and by then. It's like money in the bank.

Sempra Energy, based in San Diego, now owns the biggest wind farm in Mexico

Sixteen coal ash pits contaminating Texas groundwater