One town’s recurring coal ash nightmare

By Kristen Lombardi

Stand before the pond known here in southwestern Pennsylvania as Little Blue Run, and you’ll see nothing that resembles its bucolic-sounding

Excerpts from this story referencing "waste":

"… e.The one-time stream is now an industrial pond, filled with arsenic-laced waste from a coal-fired power plant. The pond spans nearly 1,000 acres of rollin …"

"… d consumes more than 10 percent of the total land, Little Blue Run seems a wasteland.Coal ash, tinted blue, has overtaken the valley, rising each year by a …"

"… earing, in Pittsburgh. Currently, Pennsylvania manages coal ash as a solid waste, requiring such protections as liners and groundwater monitoring — which …"

State settlement boosts monitoring at massive coal ash dump bordering two states

By Chris Hamby

One of the nation’s largest impoundments of the often-toxic byproducts of burning coal must stop accepting waste by 2016.

Excerpts from this story referencing "FirstEnergy":

"… 2016, under an agreement with Pennsylvania regulators.The pact focuses on FirstEnergy Corp.’s impoundment, known as Little Blue Run, in southwestern Pennsylva …"

"… ws into nearby streams and is a source for wells.As part of the agreement, FirstEnergy pledged to increase monitoring of groundwater and air surrounding the dump …"