Another TVA site Paradise Fossil Plant DrakesboreKY

According to the EIP analysis, atleast 20 coal pollution dump sites reported more arsenic in coal ashimpoundments than the Kingston site.The TVA's now-notorious pollution storage site in Tennessee was found by EIPto be on five of the six toxic chemical lists for the 50 worst coal-firedpower plant pollution "wet dumps."A total of five comparable disposal sitesshowed up on all six of the six worst-site lists for the toxic metals:TVAWidows Creek Fossil Plant, Jackson, AL; Duke Energy Gibson Generating Station,Gibson, IN; Georgia Power Scherer Steam Electric Generating Plant, Juliette,GA; Kentucky Utilities Co Ghent Station, Ghent, KY.; and Louisville Gas &Electric Co. Eric Schaeffer, director, Environmental Integrity Project, said:"TheTennessee eco-disaster has cast a spotlight on what is a very serious nationalproblem - the existence of under-regulated toxic pollution coal dump sitesnear coal-fired power plants that pose a serious threat to drinking watersupplies, rivers and streams.Our analysis confirms that this problem istruly national in scope and that Tennessee may end up only being a warningsign of much more trouble to come.In addition to so-called 'surfaceimpoundments' in ponds, we need to be concerned about inadequate oversight andmonitoring of land-based disposal and other 'storage' of these toxic wastes. We can no longer afford to ignore this problem and we certainly can't becontent to just sit around and wait for the next Tennessee-style disaster tohappen."Lisa Evans, project attorney, EarthJustice, said:"By highlighting theenormous volume of toxic chemicals present in coal ash, which is concentratedat single dump sites throughout the U.S., the EIP report points to thesolution federal regulations that require containment of the toxic ashproduced by every U.S. coal plant.Nothing less will solve this seriousproblem and stop the ongoing damage to our health and environment."Christopher Irwin, staff attorney, United Mountain Defense, located inKnoxville, TN., said: "In Harriman Tennessee we were shocked when what is oneof largest ecological disasters in American history destroyed an entirewatershed and nearly a community. Now we are doubly shocked to find that thisdisaster may be set to repeat itself in communities all over.These Ash pilesmaybe slowly poisoning America's greatest natural resource, our watersheds.The TVA disaster hopefully will be a wake-up call that protecting our preciouswater resources must be priority number 1. Dead fish, sick residents, toxicsludge, dead riversthe scene from the TVA disaster in Harriman Tennesseecould repeat itself in unsuspecting communities throughout North America." OTHER DATA IN REPORT Other highlights of the new EIP report include the following: Overall pollution.Between 2000 and 2006, the power industry reporteddepositing coal ash containing more than 124 million pounds of the followingsix toxic pollutants into surface impoundments: arsenic, chromium, lead,nickel, selenium, and thallium.These pollutants are present in coal ash,prone to leaching from ash into the environment and highly toxic at minutelevels (parts per million or billion) to either humans or aquatic life, orboth. Arsenic.Alabama has the largest concentration of top 10 arsenic coalpollution dump sites, accounting for three of the heaviest concentration sitesfor 2000-2006:2 Gaston Steam Plan, Wilsonville, Alabama; 3 Alabama PowerCo. Gorgas Steam Plan, Parrish, AL; and 9 Alabama Power Co Greene CountySteam Plant, Forkland, AL.By way of contrast, the TVA Kingston site was 20on this list. Lead.The Stanton Energy Center in Orlando, FL., has the dubiousdistinction of being the worst plant dumping site in terms of both arsenic(see above) and lead.Another TVA site - Paradise Fossil Plant, Drakesbore,KY.

- is 3 on the list of worst plants for lead pollution storage. Stuart Station,Manchester, OH.The Stanton Energy Center in Orlando (3) and the Duke EnergyCorp Gibson Generating Station (4) follow closely behind it. A total of 16facilities reported disposing of more chromium in surface impoundments thanKingston. Selenium.The top three spots on this list are as follows:First EnergyBruce Mansfield Power Plant, Shippingport, PA.; J.M. Stuart Station,Manchester, Ohio; and the Barry Steam Plant, Bucks, AL.

A total of 15facilities report releases of selenium between 2000 and 2006 that exceed theKingston reports Thallium. ETSOURCEEnvironmental Integrity Project, Washington, D.C.Leslie Anderson, 1-703-276-3256, , forEnvironmental Integrity Project. Five new programmable multimedia and connectivity modules to encourage furtherdevelopment of open source hardware movementNEW YORK, Jan. Atthe Bug Labs Test Kitchen (located at booth IP209 in the Sands ExpoInnovation Pavilion), the team will showcase several innovative new BUGapplications which fully demonstrate the endless possibilities of BUG, theopen source modular consumer electronics platform.Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (e.g. a camera, akeyboard, a video output, etc.) that can be snapped to the BUGbase, aprogrammable Linux-based mini-computer with four available BUGmodule slots. The five new BUGmodules are: BUGprojector, a mini pico-projector module, incorporating DLP(R) Pico(TM)technology from Texas Instruments.