Transcript: Alabama County: Coal Ash Site Environmental Racism

Article: EPA APPROVES PLAN FOR DISPOSAL OF COAL ASH FROM TVA ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 3, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... s plan to transfer coal ash from the Emory River ... Arrowhead Landfill in Perry County, Ala. EPA's Administrative ... TVA requires that the coal ash from the site be disposed ... waste materials such as coal ash and has the capacity ...

Article: EPA allows TVA to dump spilled coal ash in Ala.
AP Online;  July 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... for sites other than the Perry County landfill, which typically ... TVA permission to conduct coal ash disposal tests at four ... dispose of the Kingston coal ash anywhere other than Perry County. The coal ash contains at least 14 heavy ...

Article: Poor Alabama county banks on coal ash dumping
AP Online;  July 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... dumping ground for coal ash from the nation's ... Valley Authority. Perry County will be the final resting ... of tons of dredged coal ash from an environmental ... to ship the Kingston coal ash to Perry County. It contains a cocktail ...

Coal Ash County
AP Images;  July 15, 2009 ;     274 words ... ... 9, 2009 photo shows Perry County Commission Chairman Fairest ... Cureton holding a lump of coal ash in Marion, Ala., dredged ... Valley Authority spill. Perry County will be the final resting ... millions of tons of dredged coal ash from an environmental ...

Article: Poverty, racial issues emerge in clash over disposal of ...
The Boston Globe;  August 30, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Landfill here in Perry County, which is very ... cubic yards of coal ash from a massive ... that the site, in Perry County, is in many ways ... the problems from coal ash, which contains ... contaminants. But in Perry County, a lack of trust ...

Article: United States: TVA coal ash to be transported to ...
TendersInfo;  July 4, 2009 ;     502 words ... ... The Tennessee Valley Authority began transporting ash waste Thursday from its massive coal ash spill near Knoxville to the Arrowhead Landfill in Perry County, Alabama. TVA had considered the Veolia Landfill in Taylor County, Georgia, as the ...

Article: Millions of tons of TVA coal ash coming to Ala.
AP Online;  June 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... cubic yards of coal ash from the Dec ... privately owned dump in Perry County. Operators say ... railcars loaded with coal ash every two days ... questions about coal ash shipments to TVA ... many people in Perry County could afford to ...