Francis Lambert
15/06/2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/14-1
Public Not Allowed to Know Location of Hazardous Coal Ash Sites.
There are 44 coal combustion waste sites nationwide that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified as “high hazard” (...) These sites are located in such a way that if the coal ash ponds were to fail, they would pose a threat to people living nearby.
“The volume of ash and water was 100 times greater than the amount of oil spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster,” Boxer said today. “The cost of cleaning up that spill has been estimated at over a billion dollars.” (...)
(reader comment)
Nicholas Grey June 14th, 2009 11:00 pm
“the EPA, after consulting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Homeland Security, has indicated that they cannot make the list of ‘high hazard’ sites public.”
Are you fucking kidding me?
Francis Lambert
31/07/2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Environmental_disasters_in_the_United_States
Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), a United States federal law designed to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites :
Francis Lambert
08/12/2009
Since 2004, more than 20 percent of the country’s water treatment systems failed to meet the standards set out by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The water in question contained “illegal concentrations of chemicals like arsenic or radioactive substances like uranium, as well as dangerous bacteria often found in sewage,” explains the New York Times.
Regulators have been well aware of these figures, yet, for the most part, failed to punish the water systems that were breaking the law.
Extrait de http://slatest.slate.com/id/2237772/entry/3/
original story in The New York Times
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