Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Dept. of Double Standards?

Waddaya suppose if this was a nuclear waste release? So much for clean domestic energy from coal. Ride yer bike.

Hundreds of Coal Ash Dumps Lack Regulation

The coal ash pond that ruptured and sent a billion gallons of toxic sludge across 300 acres of East Tennessee last month was only one of more than 1,300 similar dumps across the United States — most of them unregulated and unmonitored — that contain billions more gallons of fly ash and other byproducts of burning coal.

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