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The phrase “coal ash” made headlines this week after a dam on a lake at the site of a power plant in Wilmington, N.C., was breached, allowing the hazardous ash into a river that supplies drinking water to much of the southeastern part of the state. The plant that was shut down, owned by Duke Energy, had been a growing concern since last week after heavy rains associated with Hurricane Florence caused a coal ash landfill at the site to erode, spilling ash onto a roadway.
What remains after coal is burned includes fly ash, bottom ash and so-called scrubber sludge, said Lisa Evans, chief counsel to Earthjustice, an environmental law organization. The sludge, which is created from solutions sprayed inside exhaust stacks to capture the harmful chemicals that cause acid rain, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, falls to the bottom.
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Hazardous substances such as cadmium and mercury are present in computers, cell phones, fluorescent lamps and other consumer electronics and may cause harm to the health of users of this equipment and the environment if not handled or disposed of properly.After a series of meetings held this year, the last one promoted on Monday (25/9) i...
The Technical Regulation establishes requirements for explosive materials for industrial use and conformity assessment procedures, rules for placing on the market and supervision of explosives for industrial uses. It is developed on the basis of the Directive 2014/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmon...
Eggs, toys, and combs may contain dioxins and/or brominated flame retardants (BFRs), endangering human health. On an international conference in Poland, this was stated by authors of studies investigating harmfulness of consumer products available also in the Czech Republic or environmental compartments in Thailand. Experts from the whole world dis...
This draft Uganda standard specifies a test method for the determination of total soluble uranium activity in drinking water in the range of 0.037 Bq/l (1 pCi/l) or greater by selective solvent extraction and high-resolution alpha-liquid- scintillation spectrometry. The energy resolution obtainable with this technique also allows estimati...
The purpose of this notice is to outline the arrangements that would come into force to regulate chemicals in the unlikely event the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019 with no agreement in place, with respect to the Export and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Regulation (known as the PIC Regulation).CONTINUE READING ON www.gov.uk
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