Duke Energy’s accidental release of thousands of pounds of coal ash into North Carolina’s Dan River is doing damage far more profound than anyone imagined. This is the time of winter hibernation for turtles, who nest in the river bed. Waking up to find their homes filled with choking poison, they are crawling onto the […]
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose, right? When a coal plant on North Carolina’s Dan River spilled a massive amount of coal ash last week, the state officials in charge of the environment said at the time that arsenic levels in the water were nothing to get worried about. Whoops: N.C. environmental […]
After the recent release of 7,500 gallons of coal-treatment chemicals into their water supply, a whole lot of people in West Virginia were apparently taken by surprise to discover that their water wasn’t safe to drink any more. Some people, however, haven’t been putting that stuff in their mouths for decades. Joe Stanley, a 64-year-old […]