Coal ash: the environmental version of Too Big To Fail

[charlie]

Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) that her committee can't publicly disclose the location of coal ash dumps across the country.

The pollution is so toxic, so dangerous, that an enemy of the United States -- or a storm or some other disrupting event -- could easily cause them to spill out and lay waste to any area nearby.

There are 44 sites deemed by the Environmental Protection Agency to be high hazard, but Boxer said she isn't allowed to talk about them other than to senators in the states affected. "There is a huge muzzle on me and my staff," she said.

"Homeland Security and the Army Corps have decided in the interests of national security they can't make these sites known," she said...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/coal-ash-spills-too-dange_n_214739.html

Boxer is pressing ahead with her efforts for public disclosure.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I like how they worked the threat of terrorism into that.

Real Bush league stuff.

[kenny blankenship]

2. I especially enjoyed this part:

The pollution is so toxic, so dangerous, that an enemy of the United States -- or a storm or some other disrupting event -- could easily cause them to spill out and lay waste to any area nearby.

SO if you whispered to a passing cloud the location of one of these toxic ash heaps, the next thing you know Mother Nature would be blackmailing you for 100 billion dollars and maybe also demanding the dismantling of NOAA. Terrorist Weather - that's why the locations must be kept secret. It's what's next.

[cdsilv]

3. google can find them.....

just google 'coal ash dump locations" .....

[charlie]

4. Time to update the oaths

"...defend and protect against all enemies, foreign, domestic, and inanimate."