"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday made public a list of 26 communities in 10 states where residents are potentially threatened by coal ash storage ponds similar to one that flooded a neighborhood in Tennessee last year.
North Carolina has the most sites on the list, a dozen. The largest concentration is near Cochise, Ariz., where there are seven storage ponds.
The agency said it will inspect each of the 44 coal ash sites located near communities to make certain they are structurally sound. The sites are being classified as potentially highly hazardous because they are near where people live and not because of any discovered defect."
H. Josef Hebert reports for the Associated Press June 29, 2009.
See Also:
"Future Murky for Ash Disposal" (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
EPA Names Locations of Hazardous Ash Piles (USA TODAY)
"Louisville Coal Ash Pond on List" (WHAS11)
"EPA List Shows Dangerous Coal Ash Sites Found in 10 States" (McClatchy)
"Asheville Coal Ash Sites on Potential Hazard List"
"EPA Releases Secret List" (SolveClimate)
"Four W.Va. Sites on 'high-Hazard' Coal-Ash Dam List" (Charleston Gazette)
"EPA Names the Names" (Coal Tattoo)
Four WV Plants Labelled 'High Hazard' (13WOWK)
"EPA Reveals Dangerous Ash Sites" (Alternet/HuffPo)
Earthjustice Release of June 29, 2009
"Milledgeville Coal-Ash Dump May Be Hazardous" (13WMAZ)
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