ACTION ALERT: National Day of Action Against Coal Ash
Today is the National 24 hours from Action Against Coal Ash. Join with Sierra Club, NRDC, along with other environmental groups for tell Obama which us must have rock solid federal regulations as well as enforcement such testament ensure a proper disposal from coal waste.
Object includes been more more than unit 12 months since any disastrous coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee, nine years since any sludge spill inside Martin County, Kentucky, as well as twenty-eight years since each Buffalo Creek spill such killed 125 persons; also for us government still fulfills not at all have adequate protocols toward address coal waste.
EPA has submitted one proposal toward improve disposal regulations; but with certain lobbying power made from massive coal among Washington, entity perhaps remain tragically bastardized.
Coal ash is currently considered some “special waste,” in no way a hazardous material, exempt via federal regulations.
But yourself may support any campaign for receive better regulations since a Obama administration
When you’re standing at the foot out of a West Virginia holler, looking up next to one earthen dam holding three billion gallons out of toxic coal sludge proper above single elementary school, you’re not thinking regarding global warming.