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Black Waters: Massey Energy has been fined $20 million for hundreds of violations of the Clean Water Act for coal waste spilled into mountain streams in Kentucky and West Virginia

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Massey Energy has been fined $20 million for hundreds of violations of the Clean Water Act for after spilling coal waste into mountain streams in Kentucky and West Virginia. In Dec 2008, TVA (the Tennessee Valley Authority) coal ash storage mountain at the Kingston Power Plant failed and approximately 1 billion gallons of coal waste went into the Clinch and Emory Rivers, which provide drinking water for Chattanooga and several cities in Alabama.

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clean  corporation  water  environmental  coal  act  mining  Virginia  West  disaster  Ash  Fines  Kentucky

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Greenhouse Gases  Water Impacts  Emperilled Ecosystems  The effects of Mining worldwide   Endangered Species

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