Why Is Coal Ash Such a Problem?

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(Rediffusion)Dans un étrange retournement ironique, les mines de charbon abandonnées qui produisaient jadis le combustible fossile le plus sale commencent à être exploitées pour produire de l'énergie propre.Traduction :In a strange twist of irony, abandoned coal mines that once p ...  Show more

An old coal mine in Pennsylvania caught fire one day in the 60s and it’s been burning ever since. What’s crazy is this happens all the time.

In 2008, a coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee blanketed hundreds of acres in toxic sludge, causing more than $1 billion in damage. Now, a CNN investigation found that an even larger coal ash pond in Alabama is already seeping into the groundwater, threatening an ecosystem some ...  Show more

There’s a mystery afoot! Almost all of the coal we use around the world was created in the same 60 million year period. Before or after that relatively short window of time, not so much. Just what exactly explains this geological mystery?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in ...  Show more