{"id":1203,"date":"2009-01-09T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2009-01-09T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T18:42:37","slug":"coal-is-never-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/09\/coal-is-never-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal is never &#8220;clean&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INSTITUTE INDEX<\/strong><br \/>\nCompiled by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/\">Institute for Southern Studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Size of the coal ash sludge pond that broke at TVA&#8217;s Kingston power plant on Dec. 22: 40 acres<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Estimated amount of coal ash sludge that spilled from the pond: 1.1 billion gallons<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rank of the incident among U.S. environmental disasters in terms of waste spilled: 1<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Land covered by the sludge: 300 acres<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Depth of the sludge at its highest point: 6 feet<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Number of properties damaged: 42<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Factor by which arsenic levels found in samples taken two miles downstream from the spill exceeded safe drinking water limits: 30<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Days it took before authorities issued a notice advising residents not to touch the waste or drink water from affected wells and springs: 7<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Number of breaches in the same ash pond over the past six years: 2<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tons of coal combustion waste produced each year by US coal plants: 129 million<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rank of coal combustion waste among top waste streams in the US: 2<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Number of federal regulations governing coal combustion waste: 0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Year EPA last considered regulating coal combustion waste: 2000<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 According to EPA, number of times the risk of getting cancer from coal ash lagoons exceeds safety standards: 10,000<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Number of sites around the country that the EPA says have proven damage from coal ash: 24<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Number of US power plants dumping more coal waste into ponds then the one that failed at Kingston: 22<\/p>\n<p><em>All sources on file with the Institute for Southern Studies; for more information, e-mail sue@southernstudies.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INSTITUTE INDEX Compiled by the Institute for Southern Studies \u2022 Size of the coal ash sludge pond that broke at TVA&#8217;s Kingston power plant on Dec. 22: 40 acres \u2022 Estimated amount of coal ash sludge that spilled from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/09\/coal-is-never-clean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}