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Settlement reached on coal slurry spill On Oct. 11, 2000, 250 million gallons of coal slurry poured out of an impoundment in southeast Kentucky, gushing into nearby yards, roads, creeks and rivers and destroying life in 75 miles of waterways. Nearly three years later, the State of West Virginia settled its lawsuit against the coal company responsible.   |
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Innovation: Coal Briquettes, Green Fields Coal A company that turns slurry back into coal. |
Popular Mechanics
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Just How Toxic Was the Tennessee Coal Sludge Spill? Coal fly ash is nasty stuff. According an Environmental Protection Agency report, coal plants produce 160 pounds of fly ash for every ton of coal that they burn. |
Mother Jones
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Razing Appalachia First they dug out the land. Then they strip mined it. Now Big Coal is leveling the mountains themselves--and tearing communities apart. |
Geotimes
April 2006
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A New Look at Mining and the Environment: Finding Common Ground The current impasse between environmentalists and industry is unique among advanced nations. The U.S. conflict contrasts sharply with policy in Sweden, where a dynamic mining and mineral industry coexists with a strong national environmental commitment in a high-wage, strong economy. |
Geotimes
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Digging Into Coal Mining Safety We owe the men and women who labor deep below ground and who risk their lives to provide our quality of life the best equipment, the best technology, the best training and the safest work environment our resources can provide. |
Geotimes
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Underground Coal Mining Health and Safety: A View From the Inside Only through health and safety research programs, strong university programs in mining engineering and committed graduates will we push coal technology boundaries forward. |
Chemistry World
October 5, 2011 |
One Year on From Hungary's Red Mud Disaster Hungarian government officials commemorated the first anniversary of the country's worst industrial accident. |
The Motley Fool
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Reconsidering the Power to Move Mountains A 2007 court ruling regarding the environmentally destructive process of mountaintop removal by Appalachian coal miners is currently being appealed by Massey Energy and the West Virginia Coal Association. |
Geotimes
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Need a Job? Coal Workers Wanted As the demand for coal increases, the demand for coal workers is also rising, at a time when a notable dearth of mining engineering geologists and other workers is coming down the pipe. |
IndustryWeek
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Hhydraulic Fracking is Major Problem After fracking wells, natural gas has started bubbling out of nearby ponds and residential water supplies. |
Geotimes
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Getting to the Source of the Puget Sound Oil Spill Workers mobilized by the Washington Department of Ecology cleaned up beaches in the Dalco Passage of Puget Sound, after an oil spill on Oct. 14. The source of the spill remains unknown. |
Popular Mechanics
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GE Dredges Hudson River PCBs, Ships Them to Texas How the Hudson River is cleaned. |
