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  • TVA's Top Executive to Give Ash Spill Deposition

    (Business Week 8-31-2010) The Tennessee Valley Authority's top executive is to answer questions behind closed doors for seven hours about the utility's coal ash spill.
     
    TVA Chief Executive Officer Tom Kilgore is scheduled to give a deposition Tuesday at the utility's headquarters in Knoxville, answering questions by lawyers for people who have filed damage lawsuits. A TVA spokeswoman said the session is closed to reporters.
     

  • EPA to Decide Whether Coal Ash is Hazardous Waste

    (USA Today 8-27-2010) The U.S. coal industry is bracing for tighter and more costly regulation of its waste. Environmental groups say that it's about time.
     
    The Environmental Protection Agency next week is set to begin a month of hearings on whether coal-ash waste — what's left after coal is burned to make electricity — should be effectively treated as hazardous waste subject to tighter safeguards.
     

  • Proposed EPA Coal Ash Rule Could Hurt Small Firms

    (Trading Markets 7-27-2010) Washington, DC - Recycling industry entrepreneurs today told a key Congressional panel they are concerned new regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could stop them from converting coal-fired power plant waste into safe, ecofriendly building products. During a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business' Rural Development, Entrepreneurship and Trade Subcommittee, witnesses said the rules could raise utility rates and cause layoffs.
     

  • EPA to Hold Coal-Ash Hearing in Denver

    (Denver Business Journal 7-24-2010) Denver will be the site of one of five public hearings nationwide that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled on proposed rules for coal ash from power plants.
     

  • EPA SETS PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR PROPOSED COAL ASH DESIGNATION, DISPOSAL RULE

    (Concrete Products 7-23-2010) The EPA Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery is accepting speaker preregistration for public hearings on its proposed “Identification and Listing of Special Waste: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities” rule, whose contentious provisions have drawn sharp criticism from fly ash marketers and users. With morning, afternoon and evening sessions, the hearings are scheduled August 30–September 16 in Arlington, Va.; Denver; Dallas; Charlotte, N.C.; and Chicago.
     

  • NRMCA TELLS LAWMAKERS OF EPA-PROPOSED COAL ASH DESIGNATION PITFALLS

    (Concrete Products 7-23-2010) Testifying July 22 on Capitol Hill, NRMCA President Robert Garbini noted that a potential Environmental Protection Agency plan to classify coal ash as a hazardous waste would exert a significant economic toll on producers nationwide, especially small operators, and make beneficial use of ASTM C618 material in concrete more onerous.

  • Army Corps Considering Coal Ash To Fix Levees

    (Business Week 7-14-2010) The Army Corps of Engineers wants to use ash cast off from coal-fired electrical generation to shore up dozens of miles of Mississippi River levees, drawing fire from environmentalists worried that heavy metals from the filler might make their way into the river.
     

  • Push For Fly Ash Use in Roads

     
    (India Times 7-12-2010) The environment department wants fly ash to be used extensively in various types of construction work, particularly roads and highways. The state flyash management committee will hold a meeting later this month to assess the progress made so far in this regard. 
     

  • Wave Of EPA Regulations Could Overshadow New Pollution Rule

    (NASDAQ 7-10-2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a major set of power-plant air-pollution rules this week, but even more far- reaching regulations are in the works.
     
    Within the next several months, the EPA is expected to develop new rules to reduce mercury and hazardous air pollutants, while also creating standards for coal ash.
     
    "This regulatory train wreck will have a big impact on the power sector," said Dan Riedinger, a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute.
     

  • The Cost of Regulating Coal Ash in Wisconsin

    (Milwaukee News 7-2-2010) New regulations for the disposing of coal ash proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency are likely to increase costs for utilities in Wisconsin, which are particularly dependent on coal – and those costs are expected to be passed on to consumers. The regulations may also make it more difficult for Milwaukee’s utility, WE Energies, to sell the ash, which is a byproduct of the coal burning process. It’s successfully marketed this waste product to concrete, cement and wallboard manufacturers.
     

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