Below you will find example sentences with "coal ash". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Coal Ash in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: coal
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "coal ash" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 24.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a toxic coal ash dump at, cleaning up coal ash after the, power, water and energy stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with ash wednesday, coal mines, coal mine, coal mines, coal mine and coking coal, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with coal ash
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Coal ash is the residue left after burning coal to generate power. (12 words)
Coal ash and water contamination put a Middle Georgia town in the spotlight. (13 words)
Coal ash is a particularly dangerous byproduct of our dependence on fossil fuels. (13 words)
A three-hour drive south, in Conway, South Carolina, there are fears for 200,000 tons of coal ash – the waste left over from burning coal at power plants, which contains toxins including mercury and arsenic – located at a decommissioned power station. (42 words)
Gina McCarthy, who led the agency when the regulations were implemented, said that the thousands of tons of coal ash coming into the mainland U.S. from Puerto Rico concern her, as does the current administration’s weakening of regulations. (40 words)
Betty Johnson, whose husband worked cleaning up coal ash after the Kingston disaster, testified and joined a rally in Chicago, where the EPA held a hearing on proposed new coal ash rules on June 28, 2023. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Betty Johnson, whose husband worked cleaning up coal ash after the Kingston disaster, testified and joined a rally in Chicago, where the EPA held a hearing on proposed new coal ash rules on June 28, 2023.
The draft rules do not address coal ash contamination that has seeped from the unlined impoundments into the groundwater and drinking water; the Coal Ash Management Act regulates the groundwater impacts.
Coal Ash, also known as coal combustion residuals (CCRs), are created when coal is burned by power plants to produce electricity.
Finkelman added that coal is nowhere near as harmful as coal ash, the residue left over from burning coal to produce electricity.
The mountain of coal ash from Applied Energy System’s plant near Guayama supplies 15 percent of Puerto Rico’s energy — despite the island having no coal reserves.
A three-hour drive south, in Conway, South Carolina, there are fears for 200,000 tons of coal ash – the waste left over from burning coal at power plants, which contains toxins including mercury and arsenic – located at a decommissioned power station.
Coal ash is the residue left after burning coal to generate power.
Advocates argue that disasters similar to Kingston could happen if regulations do not require the full cleanup of all coal ash dumps.
The new ruling would force energy companies and other owners of the coal ash ponds to clean up inactive sites.
For a time, Calhoun also had to battle a defamation lawsuit filed by the operators of a toxic coal ash dump at a local landfill.
Mon Power is building a 5.75 megawatt solar facility on 36 acres of former coal ash landfill in Berkeley County.
Coal ash and water contamination put a Middle Georgia town in the spotlight.
Further, Hilburn and Sams believe that Juliette’s reliance on groundwater as its primary source of drinking water amplifies the threat from unlined coal ash ponds.
Gina McCarthy, who led the agency when the regulations were implemented, said that the thousands of tons of coal ash coming into the mainland U.S. from Puerto Rico concern her, as does the current administration’s weakening of regulations.
Jacobs’ safety manager at the time, Tom Bock, they could safely “eat a pound of coal ash a day” and directed at least three workers – – to turn over or destroy on-site dust masks.
US criticized the EPA for rolling back regulations on coal ash at the behest of Wheeler’s former client.
But if every coal ash site is different, they are similar in the toxins they contain.
Coal ash is a particularly dangerous byproduct of our dependence on fossil fuels.
Duke Energy pleaded guilty in 2015 to federal environmental crimes after an investigation found the company allowed coal ash dumps at five power plants to leak toxic waste into water supplies.
Hurricane Florence also caused a release of coal ash from a landfill under construction at the Sutton site.