coal ash Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:11:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 North Carolina Legislation Allows Coal Power Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/north-carolina-legislation-allows-coal-power-pollution-20140318/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/north-carolina-legislation-allows-coal-power-pollution-20140318/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:11:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46532 Coal power plants, aside from generating electricity and the worst carbon dioxide emissions of any power plant. As if coal power wasn’t dirty enough, from an emissions standpoint, they also generate tons of coal ash as a byproduct of combustion. Of course, the coal ash has to be put somewhere, but the only solution, so […]

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