Coal Sludge Impoundments in the News

7-2	Protest brings hundreds to coalfields
6-28	Mr. President, go and see for yourself
6-26	Second Coal Silo Not For The Sake of Children
6-26	DEP on fence as it reports slurry study data inconclusive
6-25	Noted Climate Scientist Participates in Protest
6-18	West Virginia to require coal companies to monitor slurry
6-17	DEP won't expand slurry injection moratorium
6-17	WVU report on coal slurry health risks due Dec. 31
6-12	Marsh Fork community reacts to high court ruling
6-10	Country Star Raising Money To Replace School Under Coal Impoundment
6-10	Marsh Fork kids: What kind of justice is Menis?
6-10	Massey slurry pollution trial now set for October
6-9	West Va. Supreme Court affirms toxic coal silo as wonderful playground
6-9	Breaking news: Court OKs Massey silo near school
6-9	W.Va. high court OKs Massey silo near elementary school
6-3	State groups sponsoring Mountain Aid concert in N.C.
6-3	Grammy winner raising awareness of mountaintop removal mining
5-30	WVDEP’s ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy on coal slurry
5-30	Mountain Justice volunteers clean up Mingo flood damage
5-28	DEP halts new coal slurry injections
5-28	DEP issues moratorium on slurry injection
5-28	DEP issues slurry study
5-28	Impoundment breach added to Breathitt flood damage, mining expert says
5-28	Coal dam update: What’s up with the OSMRE study?
5-27	Farmer loses crop in flood, blames surface mining
5-27	Activists host press conference after weekend protest
5-23	Police Remove 11 During Raleigh County, W.Va. Protests of Coal Sludge Dams and Mountaintop
5-23	Breaking: Civil Disobedience at WV Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Impoundment Sites
5-19	Two mines take responsibility for parts of Mingo County flooding
5-18	Low fish consumption justifies higher mercury levels, DEP study says
5-14	Debate: Roberts v. 'clean coal' flack Joe Lucas
5-13	Mountain Aid concert to educate about mountain top removal
5-12	Massey’s Dark Side
5-12	Dear Mr. President: Declare August 3rd as Armistice Day in the Appalachian Coalfields
5-6	Urgent Letter to EPA and Interior: Liberate Coalfields and Take Primacy
5-6	Some chose Massey settlement offers
5-6	Mountain Aid concert set for June 19-20
5-5	Coal ash panel calls for emergency response plans for spills
5-2	'Clean Coal' Debate Plays Out on the Airwaves
5-2	Judge declares class action for 751 in Massey cases
5-1	732 convene in Mingo for water contamination suits
5-1	Mingo judge OKs class-action in coal slurry case
4-30	WVa judge seeks to resolve coal pollution case
4-29	Mr. King Coal's Neighborhood: Washington DC, Won't You Be My Neighbor?
4-27	Obama plans for mountaintop removal buffer rule unclear
4-16	Occupied by Big Coal: From Iraq to Appalachia
4-16	5 more cited for protest at Massey mine in W.Va.
4-13	Peabody 1Q earnings are expected to increase
4-12	Photovoice participants capture their Southern W.Va. communities in images
4-9	Maps, markers and Marsh Fork Elementary School II
4-9	Professor examines complexity of environmental disasters
4-8	Death by Coal in Prenter, WV
4-8	Maps, markers and Marsh Fork Elementary School
4-8	W.Va. high court hears Massey coal silo fight
4-8	WVa court hears case of coal silo near school
4-7	WV Judge's Settlement May Fund Drinking Water
4-6	Agreement reached in Boone County well water dispute
4-6	The price of unchecked greed
4-3	Louis-Rosenberg explains dangers of Mountain Top Removal Mining
4-2	Photo exhibit tells stories of communities using art
3-31	Fight Continues For Clean Drinking Water
3-31	W.Va. coal slurry study could take another year
3-31	WV Senate to hear new info about Sludge Injection Study today
3-30	W. Va. Senate Oversight Hearing on SCR15 Sludge Injection Study
3-29	Mountaintop removal, coal and your Sunday paper
3-28	Students deliver clean water to Prenter residents; Effort to ease problems of polluted wells
3-27	His Eyes Are on the Spadaro: Coalfields Need Jack Back at MSHA or OSM
3-25	Prenter's water problems goes to Boone County courthouse
3-25	Poor steward of public health
3-21	Critics question safety of storing coal slurry
3-20	Underground Injection of Coal Slurry Not Meeting Public Health Standards
3-20	Coalfield residents release slurry study
3-19	Mountaintop mining fight heads to Washington
3-19	Clean Coal--The Ultimate Oxymoron
3-19	Findings on coal slurry spark call for ban in W.Va.
3-19	Citizen slurry study
3-18	Scientists: Tests show metals in WVa coal slurry
3-18	Independent lab tests: metals in WVa coal slurry
3-17	Help Coming To West Virginia Communities With Bad Water
3-13	Heed the global call with Lights Out on March 28
3-13	Senator drinks 'coal slurry' to make a point
3-12	National environmental group lists states with potential waste from coal-fired plants
3-12	Stop slurry injection?
3-12	It takes a village to stop razing Appalachia
3-12	Slurry injection moratorium bill introduced
3-12	Bottoms Up: W.Va. Senator Drinks Homemade "Coal Waste" on Senate Floor
3-11	W.Va. bill puts freeze on coal slurry injection
3-6	Prenter water project top priority with Gov. Manchin, Halstead says
3-5	Five More Arrested Protesting West Virginia Coal Mining
3-5	Residents voice concern over Marfork plant to DEP
3-5	Operation Appalachian spring; Coal River Mountain sit-in campaign blooms
2-28	Nothing would be better than this
2-26	Survivor recounts Buffalo Creek disaster
2-26	Marfork permit foes fail to show for public hearing (location too far; after complaints to DEP new hearing set)
2-26	Remembering Buffalo Creek
2-25	Protesters Arrested On Eve of Anniversary of Buffalo Creek Disaster
2-25	Danger to coal prep plant workers: Weitz & Luxenberg to Host Meetings Next Week in West Virginia
2-22	It is time for W.Va. to tame coal
2-18	Seeking protection for coalfield cemeteries
2-17	Tech community should reach out to Prenter Hollow
2-17	Coal slurry research may help W.Va. community
2-14	Lawmakers vow to keep heat on DEP over coal slurry
2-12	Community raises concerns over W. Va. school by coal waste pond
2-11	W. Va. town surrounded by coal mining struggles with bad water
2-10	Seth, Prenter residents file suits against coal companies over water
2-10	Lawmakers slam agency over slurry study delay
2-9	Environmentalists appeal blasting on WVa mountain
2-7	DEP unsure if coal slurry poisons water supplies: Agency to ignore deadline for study
2-6	Coal waste may go into ground instead of lagoon
2-5	Obama and Gov. Manchin: Act on Coal River Crisis
2-3	Toxic water
2-3	Taking a Stand at Coal River Mountain
2-3	Coal River Valley Residents Rally to Save Their Last Mountain
2-3	Six protesters arrested at Massey Mine
2-3	Anti-coal activists chain themselves to equipment at Massey operation
2-3	Activists protest at Marfork
2-3	Ailing W.Va. towns with bad water sue over slurry
2-1	Demand solution to water problems
1-30	Big Coal residents file massive lawsuit against coal operators
1-29	Photographer depicts cost of coal
1-28	Coal Waste in Rep. Nick Joe Rahall's Water
1-26	Benjamin expected to hear Massey appeal
1-26	WV Public Radio reports: All we wanted was water
1-22	Nick Joe Rahall
1-21	Informing county about coal slurry impoundments
1-21	Prenter water funds secured, officials say
1-16	Rawl residents question strange sludge
1-16	Wheeling Jesuit University's Coal Impoundment Project Leading the Way for Safer Communities
1-16	Coal slurries poison water supply
1-15	Rahall bill would regulate coal-ash ponds like other waste dams
1-11	U.S. House panel to hold hearings on ash pond
1-9	Disaster in Harriman is this country's Chernobyl
1-9	W.Va. coal-ash dams seldom inspected, DEP says
1-8	First of fresh water deliveries are made to the Prenter area
1-7	Boone County officials say area prepared for catastrophic events -thanks to WARN
1-6	Community speaks out at meeting over Massey; DEP gets earful on renewal of permit for Marsh Fork facility
1-6	Coal industry backs slurry safety planning
1-4	Winnie Fox: Elected officials should protect people, resources of West Virginia
1-3	The Charleston Gazette: Sludge spill: Safety rules needed
1-3	Preparing for disaster
1-2	Cheap electricity's hazardous wages
1-1-09	Who will be the next victims?
12-31	Is Boone County prepared for a coal slurry impoundment break?
12-30	Coal waste sludge ponds — how safe are they?
12-29	Slurry Sludge On The Menu? How Safe Are Region’s Coal-Ash Storage Sites?
12-25	Environmentalists Concerned On Effects Of Huge TVA Coal Ash Spill
12-23	Tennessee slurry spill brings calls for emergency plans in Kentucky
12-23	Tennessee sludge spill runs over homes, water
12-18	Mining Town's Drinking Water 'Too Toxic to Touch'
12-16	Community Works to Ease Water Burden
12-12	Free Appalachia from Mountaintop Mining
12-4	State seeks new coal-waste plan
12-3	Prenter's rich history shadowed by water woes
12-3	Don't Muddy the Waters: Environmental-Protection Experts Should Regulate Water Pollution From Mines
12-2	Rule Would Ease Mining Debris Disposal: Environmentalists Fear Streams Will Be Harmed
11-26	Mining Accident in Boone County
11-21	Prenter residents still waiting on water
11-18	Julian Martin: Coal industry can't be trusted to be responsible
11-13	Time to Give Friends of Coal the Boot
10-30	Carbon capture riddled with problems, report says  --  Read the report here
10-29	Don’t blow up the mountain
10-26	There's Nothing Conservative About Mountaintop Removal
10-17	Bush Admin Seeks to Lock Down Destructive Mountaintop Removal Mining Rule
10-15	So-Called “Clean Coal” Technology Offers Promise Along with Considerable Risks, New Report Finds
10-9	The Rebellion of 1974
10-7	Bailout Contains Incentives for Coal Industry; Rockefeller Said More Than $1 Billion Would Result in Clean Coal Technology
10-3	Reject Gigantic Spending Bill (which includes a "measure to encourage use of coal waste sludge as fuel in steel mills")
9-26	Defending Coal’s Victims
9-11	Anger after 128 killed by huge China mudslide
9-10	Dozens dead as mudslide sweeps through Chinese town: govt
9-2	The Environment: Big Coal sells its soul and goes topless
8-31	East Lynn mining proposal questioned
8/2	The Next Buffalo Creek?
7-24	Beshear wrong to think coal can be mined "environmentally"
7-19	Sylvester residents first to receive calls from county's WARN system
7-18	Thinking Beyond Coal
7-18	Fighting King Coal in Appalachia: Ed's Chicken
7-17	Thinking Beyond Coal
7-10	Appalachia Scheme Wins Bucky Fuller Design Contest
6-21	Coal company cited for slurry spill
5-31	Where is coal-waste poison going?
5-27	The Chemical Composition of Coal and Its Negative Impact
5-20	The Mountain That Lost Its Top
5-14	Magnum Coal cited in fatal fall at preparation plant
5-13	Full speed ahead on Prenter water
5-11	State says local dams at risk
5-9	KET Film: Appalshop Film 'Sludge' to Air
5-9	Documentary film, "Sludge" to air four times in May on KET
5-2	NASA Earth Observatory: Coal Sludge Impoundments, West Virginia
5-2	Murray says 2 Ohio mines could close
4-29	West Virginia Grandfather Takes on the Coal Industry: Ed Wiley on His Battle Against Mountaintop Removal Mining
4-25	MTR ravages the Appalachians
4-22	Mining companies seek to reclassify Greene County stream for coal plant
4-22	Every day is Earth Day for artist
4-20	Considering Kilowatt Ours: High-powered doc explores multiple environmental issues
4-18	The Coal Miner's Granddaughter
4-14	Practicing Resurrection Week 2
4-14	Earth Week Sprints Off with 5K Tree Run
4-11	Clean coal's dirty secret
4-10	Judge OKs EPA fine for Massey water suit
4-8	WARN system not forgotten
3-30	Manchin plans no investigation of coal, health
3-26	WVU study finds high illness, death rates in coalfields
3-26	WV Public Radio: Coal pollution and disease linked in new WVU study
3-25	WVU researchers say coal mining endangers public health
3-25	Study Links Chronic Illness To Coal Mining Pollution
3-25	Study: Coal counties have higher disease rates
3-25	Study: Coal Mining Pollution May Affect Public Health
3-23	World Water Crisis
3-19	Filming efforts to save the Appalachians in Mountain Top Removal
3-7	Ohio Valley Coal cited for polluting creek
3-6	Coal company hit with four violations...thus far
3-2	Trading hammers for health care: Wheeling Jesuit students experience a different kind of service trip
2-29	Coal-slurry spill blackens miles of creek
2-28	Mountaintop Revival: Local evangelical Christians join environmentalists in an unlikely union to fight mountaintop removal mining in Tennessee
2-27	Buffalo Creek disaster remembered
2-26	Remembering the disaster at Buffalo Creek
2-23	Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains
2-19	Mountaintop Removal Mining: Like a Third-World Autocracy
2-18	Meigs resident shares concerns about proposed AMP-Ohio generating station
2-17	Make West Virginia protected from coal
2-16	Journalist was native of Shoals
2-14	Word scene: Author to speak about novel set in coal-mining country
2-10	In places of emergency; Hundreds of danger zones lack notification plans
2-7	300 million gallons of coal slurry
2-7	Hear about environmental impact of 'mountaintop removal' tonight
2-5	$20 million fine is not enough
2-4	Are alternative fuels really cleaner?
2-3	'Coal River' cries a river over the devastation from mining
1-25	Let's stop ignoring damage from mining
1-20	Mountains Into Molehills
1-18	Big Coal objects to being called an "outlaw industry," but facts are facts
1-18	Violations no surprise to Massey neighbor
1-18	Massey to pay $20 million to settle with EPA ; E. Ky. slurry spill spurred action
1-18	Massey Energy pays $30 million for polluting Kentucky streams; Landmark settlement with EPA includes Virginia and West Virginia
1-18	$20 million fine, improvements part of Massey deal; feds believe company will now have to change
1-18	Massey Energy to pay record pollution fine
1-18	Big coal producer to pay $20 million for polluting streams
1-17	Coal company penalized for Clean Water Act violations
1-6	Plain Dealer: Shnayerson's Coal River' examines ills of mountaintop mining
1-5	Pancake's powerful mountaintop removal novel
1-4	Moving mountains
1-3	Team Finds New Way to Strip Mercury from Water
1-2-08	Coal mines' neighbors live, sleep in fear
12-17	Safe drinking water gets harder to tap
12-17	What's in the water at Prenter?; After rash of illnessess, that’s the question in the community
12-14	Bush taps former Massey executive for DOE seat
12-12	Wreck the Planet, Win a Prize!
11-27	Coal gets downright evil
11-18	State decides it will protect stream after all; Initial EPA decision would have let company dump slurry into bed
11-16	Justices OK trial plan for coal prep lawsuit
11-12	Mountaintop removal destroying Virginia and Appalachian mountains, speaker says
10-25	Environmentalists oppose proposed change in mining rule
10-18	Climb the mountain while it’s still here’
10-9	For sake of kids move Marsh Fork Elementary
10-7	Marsh Fork needs new school away from silo
9-27	Kanawha circuit court sides with Massey on Marsh Fork
9-26	Circuit Court Sides with Massey Energy in Coal Silo Case
9-19	Creek or pit for slurry? State EPA weighing mine company's request
9-13	Groups Fight Bush Plans to Expand Mountain Top Coal Mining (scroll down)
9-13	State Supreme Court upholds verdict against coal company
9-12	Mountaintop-removal mining destructive
9-8	Christians against coal mining: Rev. Allen Johnson calls on churches to condemn mountaintop-removal mining
9-7	Bill Moyer's Journal: Mountaintop Mining
8-29	Mining-Impoundment Check DEP Top Priority
8-29	Mountaintop removal mining: MTR from the sky
8-27	It’s Not Just the Environment
8-25	Mountaintop removal mining: The waiting game
8-24	Environmentalists muster to fight proposed rule changes on mining near streams
8-20	Director says coal slurry impoundment rumors are not true
8-18	Too Close For Comfort
8-17	Agencies plan safety review of mine impoundments
8-3	Are People Dying To Live Here?
7-22	30 years later, mine law’s success debated
7-19	Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to send a message: Author lists mountaintop removal among 'Crimes Against Nature'
7-19	Edwards pledges to fight poverty
7-11	Channel 11 Transcript on Mattea Visit
7-10	Kathy Mattea Tours Mountaintop Removal Sites (Photo Gallery) 7/10
7-8	Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in West Virginia (Slide Show)
7-1	Another World is Possible!
6-25	Byrd lands millions in funding for mine safety provisionsa
6-21	Report proposes more funding to study mining impacts on environment, safety
6-18	Meigs County debates pros, cons of proposed coal mine
6-15	RAN confronts Bank of America on funding destructive coal mining!
6-14	No Coal
6-8	Mountain Justice Summer
6-1	Mattea is 'Living On Earth'
5-25	Learning In the Shadow of Coal
5-25	Coal Country Crooner
5-24	Battle of the mountain tops
5-14	DOJ seeks over $1.6 bln in suit against Massey
5-12	Massey sued by Feds: Coal firm violated Clean Air Act more than 4,630 times, prosecutors allege
5-12	Chemical spill closes part of I-77 on Friday
5-10	Appalachian Activists Ask U.N. to Dethrone King Coal
5-7	The fight for fluoride: In W.Va., thousands without fortified water
5-3	Putting focus on diversity of species
4-21	OVEC fighting for new Marsh Fork Elementary
4-20	State to study coal slurry waste
4-19	Landslide destroys local home
4-18	Warning: Dam problems
4-17	State has hundreds of hazardous dams
4-17	Demonstrators not paid at Marsh Fork
4-17	Parents need facts about Marsh Fork
4-16	Welsh town offers lesson for W.Va.
4-12	Inaugural Earth week kicks off
4-12	Mutilated mountains 'don't grow back'
3-27	Local citizens reiterate request for new school
3-24	Arrests at protest of coal facilities that threaten school
3-23	Raleigh school board asks governor for money to build new Marsh Fork school
3-21	OPEN LETTER FROM DAVE COOPER: Protesters Arrested at Capitol Rally
3-19	Coal Spill in Raleigh County Stream
3-19	No matter how you cut it Marsh Fork deserves a new school
3-19	Photographer claims Capitol, State Police used ‘abusive force’ at protest
3-17	YouTube video posting of arrests at March Fork Protest
3-17	Coal silo protest: 13 arrested in governor’s office
3-17	Marsh Fork Elementary protest leads to arrests at Capitol
3-17	Update: 11 Protesters Arrested at Tte WV Governor’s Office
3-17	Huntington resident among protesters
3-17	Protesters arrested at Capitol: Group is opposed to construction of a coal silo near a Raleigh County elementary school
3-17	Activists occupying WV governor offices
3-17	Coal toxins threaten kids' health, protesters say
3-16	Coal-waste study could change rules
3-16	Protestors Arrested at Marsh Fork School
3-16	Governor Says Marsh Fork Future A Local Decision
3-16	DEP files appeal in Massey silo ruling
3-13	Split board grants Massey silo permit: Second silo near school approved
3-13	Board overturns DEP rejection of silo near school
3-13	Massey Cleared to Build Silo at Goals Coal
3-12	Toxic West Virginia
3-11	The Great Flood: The Coal Industry Drops Their Black Piss Over the Hills of Kentucky
3-11	Coal mining practices and dangers are shown on the big and small screens
3-9	Senate, House Agree to Study Coal Slurry and groundwater Contamination; Sludge Safety Project Wants Independent Verification of Study
3-9	Buffalo Creek could be repeated
3-8	Drinking water at long last
3-8	Senate, House agree to study coal slurry and groundwater contamination: Sludge Safety Project wants independent verification of study
3-5	Activist wants end to harmful mining
2-27	Resolution to study coal slurry and groundwater contamination advancing: Constituents organize “Lobby Tuesdays” to tell their stories
2-27	Another Buffalo Creek?
2-27	Remembering Buffalo Creek
2-27	Buffalo Creek remembered: Survivor recalls horrifying moments, haunting memories
2-26	Ceremony Allows Survivors to Remember, Rally to Prevent Another Buffalo Creek Disaster
2-26	BUFFALO CREEK 35TH
2-26	‘It was 18 miles of horror’
2-26	Buffalo Creek flood to be remembered
2-26	Documenting fatal disaster: Santa Clarita man to tell of 197 coal dam collapse
2-25	BOOK: Appalachian poets come together in new book 'Coal, A Poetry Anthology'
2-25	Coal companies are gambling with lives
2-23	The disaster too sad to be a movie: Buffalo Creek never will have a happy ending
2-19	UWSP targets coal supplier
2-18	Death, destruction of flood still vivid  (includes links to many other Buffalo Creek articles, pictures, timelines, pdfs and videos)
2-18	Chances of another disaster remote, state says
2-17	Buffalo Creek: 35 years have not erased memories
2-16	Coal has a place - in history
2-16	Shelby, Alabama coal mine closed for decade-long coal slurry pollution
2-14	Commission takes hard look at Boone County evacuation plans
2-14	Global warming becomes a campus cause
2-13	Raleigh County board updated on improvements to local schools: Members again hear call for new Marsh Fork Elementary
2-10	Rising to the Climate Challenge
2-5	Coal silo activists waylay Manchin
2-5	Protect public from dam threats: LEGISLATURE SHOULD MANDATE ACTION PLANS
2-2	WV Gov receives surprise delivery of kid’s letters
2-1	Children write Manchin to move school from coal silo
2-1	Children Call on WV Governor Joe Manchin to Move Marsh Fork Elementary Away from Coal Contamination
1-31	Buffalo Creek: Remembering a catastrophe
1-24	Mountain Justice Day of Action - January 31, 2007
1-23	Great Britain: Mining dam bursts - and slurry flood hits village
1-22	Before the Flood
1-15	Situational Science-Man and Coal Slurry
1-11	Earth to Barak: Coal kills
1-10	Battle continues for DEP, Massey
1-10	UD professor urges public support for wind farm
1-9	Slurry pipeline bonding bill tabled
1-9	Lawmakers want study of coal slurry in drinking water
1-9	Time runs out on empty bottle bill
1-7	Chopping Down The Mountains Of Appalachia
1-7	On the '07 agenda:
1-1	Climate change mitigation requires policy compliance

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