World & Nation
Three environmental groups said Thursday that they have discovered toxic coal ash leaks from a retired Duke Energy coal plant in North Carolina, allegedly polluting the Yadkin River nine months after a massive coal ash spill from a Duke plant fouled the nearby Dan River in February.
Dec. 4, 2014
Afterword
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Jan. 4, 2011
For Years a Giant Company Has Been Mining in West Virginia’s Big Coal River Valley, Heedless of the People Living There. Now the Process Is Destroying the Mountains Themselves, and Residents Are Fighting Back.
May 5, 2002
Workplace: The state is home to seven of the 10 mines cited nationwide for most violations. Operators say the numbers paint an unfair picture.
Jan. 7, 1997
California
Development: State panel raises hopes with OK of $6 million toward purchase of sensitive area. But obstacles remain.
Dec. 4, 1998
Second North Carolina coal ash spill plugged, but concerns remain
Feb. 21, 2014
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A second ruptured stormwater pipe that has been spilling toxic coal ash into the Dan River in North Carolina and Virginia has been sealed, North Carolina officials announced late Friday.
A judge in Billings, Mont., voided the Montana portion of the largest sale of federal coal rights in history, saying the government’s impact statement failed to address potential social and economic effects of the transaction on an Indian tribe.
May 30, 1985
Six years after a catastrophic coal ash spill in Tennessee washed away homes and polluted rivers, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday the first federal regulations for the toxic wastes created by coal burned to produce electricity.
Dec. 19, 2014
The most severe earthquake to hit the Great Lakes region in more than 40 years rumbled through Cleveland, Detroit and other Rust Bowl cities just before noon Friday, shaking downtown office towers and startling residents who had come to believe that earthquakes happened only in California.
Feb. 1, 1986