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Valley Devastated by Coal Ash Waste (Video)

Photo: Richard Webb , Geograph, CC Most Americans are hardly aware of what coal ash (also commonly called fly ash) is — though plenty became more familiar with the stuff around two years ago when a massive slurry of the stuff was unleashed upon Tennessee . The often toxic byproduct of burning coal for electricity, fly ash is usually captured from the chimneys of power plants. Then, it’s stored in containment sites — or dumped. The following video documents the impact that coal ash… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Melting Arctic Sea Ice May Actually Cause Colder Northern Winters

photo: m.prinke / Creative Commons Keep this next quick one in mind the next time you start wondering if all that snow falling this winter might mean global warming isn’t actually happening: Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research say that melting Arctic sea ice may lead to colder winters in northern latitudes… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Story of Coal (Video)

Visualizing What is Invisible to Most of Us One of the problems with burning coal is that most people never … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why We Need Federal Safeguards for Coal Ash

One of the homes destroyed by the December 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash disaster in Harriman, Tenn. Photo by Lyndsay Moseley. How would you like to live near a pile of toxic waste that, every time the wind blew, spread its particles into your neighborhood? Or this—how would you like to live near a pond full of toxic waste that had no liner and could be seeping into the groundwater and nearby waterways with no penalty? This is happening to thousands of Americans right now—and the toxic waste is coal ash, the by-product of burning coal for energy…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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