International coal combustion waste news stories

Canada

 * "Sparton Announces Strategic Cooperation Agreement With Lafarge Shui On Cement (China)," Market Watch, December 19, 2011

China

 * Wang Yan, editor, "China's Coal Resources Blatantly Wasted," Xinhua News, May 2, 2007


 * Wang Lan and Cui Yuansheng, "The Application and Development of Fly Ash in China," World of Coal Ash Conferences, May 7-10, 2007.


 * Samuel R. Avro, "China: Baby Born With Defects Every 30 Seconds Due to Pollution," Consumer Energy Report, February 3, 2009.


 * "Power Plant Waste," Greenpeace International, April 15, 2010


 * "Toxic Coal Ash is China’s Single Largest Source of Solid Waste," Greenpeace East Asia, September 15, 2010


 * Meng Si, "Coal Ash Cloud Looms Large Over China," Inside Climate News, October 3, 2010

India

 * Suman Layak, "Disabling power," Financial Express, August 22, 1999


 * Gethin Chamberlain, "India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste: Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations" The Guardian, August 29, 2009


 * Kanchi Kohli, "Coal waste darkens the Kelo," India Together, December 31, 2009


 * "Power Plant Waste," Greenpeace International, April 15, 2010


 * "Slurry from NTPC ash pond affects horticulture crops," The Hindu, June 24, 2010

Mozambique

 * "Mozambican government studies construction of landfill site for industrial waste," Macauhub, January 18, 2012

New Zealand

 * "Toxic tar next to kids' cancer ward," NZHerald, January 26, 2012

Philippines

 * "Activism not a crime: Naga MTC upholds activists’ rights in coal-ash protest case," Greenpeace Philippines, January 27, 2012

South Africa

 * Yugendree Naidoo, "South Africa: Revealed - the Cost of Electricity From Coal," allAfrica, February 23, 2011


 * Ayesha Durgahee and George Webster, "Building eco-friendly homes from industrial waste," CNN, November 23, 2011

United Kingdom

 * "Recycling transforms fly ash into 'eco-minerals'," Engineer Live, June 18, 2010

United States

 * "Coal Combustion Residuals - Proposed Rule," United States Environmental Protection Agency, June 21, 2010 (with updates)


 * "On Lake Michigan, a coal-burning steamship gets a pass," Chicago Tribune, October 1, 2011


 * "Coal Ash Spill Likely Entered Lake Michigan," Waste and Recycling News, November 2, 2011


 * "Engineers develop laser solution for plants slowed by slagging," Engineer Live, November 3, 2011


 * "Dozens of Power Plants Closing Due to New EPA Rules," The New American, December 20, 2011


 * "Novel method of discovering polluters," Energy Publisher, December 21, 2011


 * "Case Filed to Protect Wateree River from Coal Waste Contamination," Southern Environmental Law Center, January 12, 2012


 * "Activists Sue EPA to Issue Final Coal Ash Rule," Waste Business Journal, January 19, 2012


 * "Support the EPA's Efforts to Regulate Coal Ash Disposal,"Green Answers, February 3, 2012


 * "Alexandria power plant fined again," Washington Post, February 14, 2012


 * "Coal ash ponds may present risk to groundwater," Lumina News, February 15, 2012

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