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	Name:	waterph -
	Subject:	Plants Rank High for Arsenic
	Date:	1/9/2009 8:22:04 AM

Congressional Action on the Ash Spill at the TVA Kingston Steam Plant

Democratic senators call for stricter rules on handling coal ash

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats said Thursday they want stricter rules for toxic ash from coal-fired power plants following a massive spill in Tennessee that has threatened drinking water and caused health fears.
Officials from the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates the plant in Kingston, Tenn., promised senators and people affected by last month’s billion-gallon spill that the agency will clean up the sludge as quickly as possible and work to compensate those who have lost property.

“We’ll start with the people first and the environment comes right after that,” Tom Kilgore, the authority’s president and chief executive, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, who heads the committee, said there is a pressing need to better manage and dispose of the ash. “The federal government has the power to regulate these wastes, and inaction has allowed this enormous volume of toxic material to go largely unregulated,” she said.

Didn’t spend enough?
Boxer, D-Calif., criticized the TVA for not spending enough money to prevent the breach. She also said her committee has not kept close enough watch over the nation’s largest public power provider.

The staggering cost of the cleanup — possibly in the hundreds of millions of dollars — is likely to find its way into the electricity rates charged by the TVA, which has 9 million customers in seven states.
“I am sorry, I’m really sorry,” Boxer said. “I assumed a lot and I shouldn’t have assumed.”

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Plants Rank High for Arsenic - Maverick - 1/8/2009 11:20:37 PM

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