Reports and Resources

Reports

• Create-Your-Own Coal Ash Report Interactive Tool
• Webinar on SoutheastCoalAsh.org
• Overview of the EPA RCRA Coal Ash Rule
• Ash in Lungs: How Breathing Coal Ash is Hazardous to Your Health
• Dangerous Waters: America’s Coal Ash Crisis
• Biological Assessment to Determine Impacts of Selenium Pollution From Coal Ash Wastewater Discharges on Fish Populations in Lake Sutton, NC
• Dump Now, Pay Later: Coal Ash Disposal Risk for the U.S. Electric Power Sector
• Congressional Report: Proposed Coal Ash Legislation Inadequate to Protect Human Health
• Coal Ash: Impacts on NC Water Resources
• Coal Ash: The Toxic Threat to our Health and Environment
• State of Failure: How States Fail to Protect Our Health and Drinking Water from Toxic Coal Ash
• Coal Ash: Florida’s Toxic Trash Exposed
• EPA’s Blind Spot: Hexavalent Chromium in Coal Ash
• Waste Deep: Filling Mines with Coal Ash is Profit for Industry, but Poison for People
• New EPA Data Show Coal Ash Problem Much Worse, Number of Coal Ash Ponds Increases by Over 60%
• Three Years After Kingston Spill: Toxic Coal Ash Continues to Rise in U.S.
• In Harm’s Way: Lack of Federal Coal Ash Regulations Endangers
• Out of Control: Mounting Damages from Coal Ash Sites
• Risky Business: Coal Ash Threatens America’s Groundwater Resources at 19 More Sites
• Meet Coal Ash’s Fake New Chinese Friends: Big Steamed Bun and Handsom Dragon
• Forty-Nine Coal-Fired Plants Acknowledge Groundwater Contamination in Response to EPA Data Collection
• Coming Clean: What the EPA Knows About the Dangers of Coal Ash
• NC Chapter of the Sierra Club: Unlined Landfills? The story of coal ash waste in our backyard

Blogs and Articles

• 2014 Dan River spill news
• Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Clean Energy Footprints
• Appalachian Voices Blog, The Front Porch
• Earthjustice blog, unEARTHED
• Center for Public Integrity: Coal Ash
• Ecowatch: Coal Ash
• America’s Worst Industrial Accident: In Pictures

Fact Sheets

• Coal Ash Management Act Summary
• Alabama Coal Ash Pamphlet
• North Carolina: Coal ash impoundment, landfill and structural fill standards
• Template: Municipal coal ash resolution
• Timeline of coal ash events from Kingston disaster to January 2014
• Coal Ash: Regulatory Options
• Coal Ash: Debunking Stigma Claims
• Coal Ash: Kingston Health Assessment
• Coal Ash: Industry and Environmental Justice Concerns
• Coal Ash Myths and Facts
• Coal Ash: A National Problem Needs a National Solution
• EPA proposed coal plant water pollution standards
• Beneficial Reuse of Coal Ash: EPA rule would not regulate reuse–and would increase recycling
• Alabama’s Toxic Tragedy
• Florida’s Toxic Tragedy
• Georgia’s Toxic Tragedy
• Kentucky’s Toxic Tragedy
• Mississippi’s Toxic Tragedy
• North Carolina’s Toxic Tragedy
• Tennessee’s Toxic Tragedy
• Virginia’s Toxic Tragedy
• South Carolina’s Toxic Tragedy

Videos and Podcasts

• 6/22/14 NC and FL Coal Ash Update: Our Southern Community Pt. 1
• 6/22/14 NC and FL Coal Ash Update: Our Southern Community Pt. 2
• Interview with the president of Agrotech Producers Joe James about cleaning up coal ash ponds using agriculture
• Southeast Coal Ash Website Tour
• Earth Focus: Coal Ash: America’s Dirty Secret
• “At What Cost?” longtime residents near Duke Energy’s Belews Creek, North Carolina power plant talk about coal ash health impacts
• Telepresser: Discussing the need for coal ash regulations in the Southeast 
• Webinar: Coal Ash–The Southeast’s Toxic Tragedy by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Earthjustice and Southern Environmental Law Center
• From the Ash: Neighbors of the landfill in Perry County, Alabama where ash from the Kingston spill was dumped
• Citizens near Asheville, N.C. gathered on World Water Day 2012 to speak out against coal ash
• Clean Coal? Water Pollution at the Light Switch
• 180 Seconds of coal ash problems
• Part 1: An Indiana town’s stuck in a slow-motion cleanup of coal ash pollution
• Downwind and Downstream: A short film series about the impacts of coal ash
• Dan River Coal Ash Spill: Our Southern Community Part 1
• Dan River Coal Ash Spill: Our Southern Community Part 2

Press Releases

• Southern Environmental Law Center Press Releases
• Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Press Releases
• Rep. Oliver Introduces Legislation Aimed Regulating Georgia’s Solid Waste Management
• Environmental Groups Increasingly Concerned about Coal Ash Contamination in Tennessee
• NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources: Duke Coal Ash Facilities

Technical Documents

• Southern Environmental Law Center maps: Buried streams at coal ash ponds in North Carolina 
• The State of Coal Ash Regulation in Tennessee
• The state of Coal Ash Regulation in North Carolina
• A Little More Arsenic With That Drinking Water?
• Re-evaluation of Estimates in USEPA Regulatory Impact Analysis
• Comments of Drs. Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton on USEPA Regulatory Impact Analysis
• New EPA Data Shows High Levels of Boron and Selenium in Scrubber Wastewater
• CRS Report, MicKinley Coal Ash Requirement Could be Ignored by States
• EPA’s Human and Ecological Risk Assessment for Coal Combustion Wastes

Legal Documents

• Complaint in federal coal ash deadline suit
• Bull Run petition for statutory appeal
• Johnsonville petition for statutory appeal
• John Sevier petition for statutory appeal
• Gallatin petition for statutory appeal
• Grainger complaint
• Wateree complaint
• Alabama Civil Rights complaint

Health Documents

• Toxicity and occupational hazards of coal fly ash