State health officials say all coal ash disposal sites comply with regulations.
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The coal ash disposal landfill for Minnkota Power Cooperative s Milton R. Young Station near Center, N.D. Coal ash, considered a non-hazardous waste, contains pollutants including heavy metals. Rules require proper disposal in landfills lined with clay and plastic to prevent seepage into groundwater and drinking water sources. Photo courtesy of the North Dakota Department of Health
FARGO Unsafe contamination from coal ash disposal sites at half a dozen power plants in western North Dakota has seeped into groundwater sources, according to a report from an environmental group.
The Gadsden City Council on Tuesday again heard positive comments about a proposed Pilgrim’s Pride rendering plant in Gadsden but council member Jason Wilson reiterated his opposition to the plant in his closing remarks after hearing from those speakers.
“I don’t really understand what’s going on,” Wilson said as the virtual meeting concluded. “We keep getting these people coming and speaking to this body, yet supposedly we’re supposed to be left out of the loop because of confidentiality?”
While Wilson thanked each speaker all from out of state for their time, he said he was confused as to why they were addressing the council when members “may not even get the chance to vote on this.”
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Late last week, the Justice Department withdrew nine Trump-era policy and guidance documents that shaped how the Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) enforced environmental law during the past several years. The memo, issued by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jean Williams,
1 follows President Biden’s Day One executive order that directs federal agencies to immediately review and take action, as necessary any agency actions that conflict with the new administration’s “important national objectives” to confront climate change, prioritize environmental justice and protect human health and the environment.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending February 5th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 171 billion cubic feet to 2,518 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 9 billion cubic feet, or 0.4% below the 2,527 billion cubic feet that were in storage on February 5th of last year, and 152 billion cubic feet, or 6.4% above the five-year average of 2,366 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 5th of February in recent years..the 171 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was a bit less than the average forecast of a 175 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but way more than the 121 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, and also more than the average withdrawal of 125 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have ty
In the latest weird 2021 moment, meat and poultry giant Tyson Foods is running a marketing campaign involving chicken nuggets arranged into freakish bouquets for Valentine’s Day. Here at the Union of Concerned Scientists, we have some thoughts about Tyson’s Valentine offering to the nation: