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November 10, 2009 -
A civil lawsuit
November 10, 2009 -
Environmental and public health watchdogs have vowed to increase their scrutiny of the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement in the wake of the Senate's approval last week of President Obama's controversial choice to head the agency.
November 3, 2009 -
The U.S.
October 30, 2009 -
Environmental justice leaders representing more than a dozen polluted communities from six Southern states met with Environmental Protection Agency leaders this week and asked them to take action to better protect the health of low-income communities and communities of color.
October 22, 2009 -
The U.S.
October 14, 2009 -
Since a dam burst at its Kingston coal-fired power plant last December and
October 7, 2009 -
An in-depth review of monitoring data from coal ash ponds located next to 13 coal-burning power plants in North Carolina has revealed that all of them are contaminating groundwater with toxic metals and other pollutants -- in some cases at levels exceeding 380 times state groundwater standards.