Drinking water Quote by Tatiana Schlossberg

Coal ash, the hazardous byproduct of burning coal to produce power, is a particularly insidious legacy of the nation's dependence on coal.

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Coal ash gets far less attention than toxic and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, but it has created environmental and health problems -…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively…

— Charles Duhigg

Sulfide-ore mining is one of the most toxic industries in America and has a long history of polluting waterways with acid drainage that contains…

— Seth Moulton

Unlike the visible and heavily regulated airborne emissions from power plant smokestacks, coal ash is largely unseen unless there is a major spill and,…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have…

— Nicholas Stern

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital…

— Winston Churchill

Coal is used to generate power almost everywhere, but problems associated with coal ash and coal ash slurry disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities,…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

— William Butler Yeats

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

— Gloria Reuben

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.

— Harry Reid