Waste Spills From a Second TVA Coal-Fired Power Plant
STEVENSON, Alabama, January 9, 2009 (ENS) – The Tennessee Valley Authority has had a second waste spill in three weeks at one of its coal-fired power plants. A 10,000 gallon leak of process water from the gypsum pond at the Widows Creek Fossil Plant in Stevenson, Alabama was discovered just before dawn this morning. TVA [...]
Read More »New York Governor Encourages Unique Clean Coal Plant
ALBANY, New York, June 12, 2008 (ENS) – New York Governor David Paterson Tuesday announced that the state would offer up to $6 million in financial support for construction of a coal-fired power demonstration plant in Jamestown that will be the first of its kind in the world. The Jamestown coal plant would burn coal [...]
Read More »Greenpeace Dumps Coal at Philippines Environment Ministry, Wins Review
MANILA, Philippines, April 19, 2008 (ENS) – Philippines Environment Secretary Lito Atienza has agreed to review the environmental compliance certificate for a proposed coal plant in Iloilo City following a dialogue with Greenpeace representatives. Greenpeace activists dumped half a ton of coal at the entrance of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, DENR, on [...]
Read More »Virginia Law Requiring Use of Virginia Coal May Be Unconstitutional
RICHMOND, Virginia, March 21, 2008 (ENS) – A state law passed last year to encourage construction of a power plant in southwestern Virginia requires the plant to burn Virginia coal. This provision makes the law unconstitutional, the Southern Environmental Law Center said in a filing with the State Corporation Commission, SCC, challenging the law. By [...]
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