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Article: SENATOR CARDIN SPONSORS RESOLUTION TO REGULATE COAL ASH
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The office of Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., has issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) has co-sponsored a U.S. Senate Resolution (S.Res. 64) calling for stricter standards and oversight to help prevent coal ash spills and improve the management and proper disposal of coal combustion ash.
On March 9, the New Page Corp. reported that a leaking pipe discharged approximately 4,000 gallons of coal ash slurry into the North Branch Potomac River near Luke, Md. In December, approximately 1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant contaminating the Emory River and covering nearly ...