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COAL ASH NEWS STORIES

· National Protest, 9/20/22 in Washington, DC Against EPA’s Lack of Action on Toxic Waste

· S.A.F.E. EPA Protest flyer

· 9/22/22: Dr. Edward Marshall speaks in Washington, DC about coal ash at national protest against EPA’s inaction on coal ash and toxic waste

· Chapel Hill Coal Ash Stories

· 10/26/2022 (NEW): Chad Knuth, Indyweek, “Chapel Hill Weighs Redeveloping a Site That Sits Atop a Coal Ash Pit Despite Warnings”

· 7/27/2022: Video: Susan Wind Talks About Coal Ash and Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill featured at minutes 21-23

· 9/14/2022 “Coal Ash Health Impacts at 828 MLK” Forum Community Notices—The Local Reporter

· 9/12/2022: Lisa Sorg, NC Policy Watch, Monday numbers: Chapel Hill’s – and the planet’s – coal ash problem

· 9/13/2022: Sam Long, Daily Tar Heel, 'Could have very serious health repercussions': Coal ash poses problems for NC,

· 9/23/2022: Town Residents Raise Concerns Over Future of Coal Ash Deposit -- The Local Reporter

· 6/30/2022, Dr. Edward Marshall, Coal Ash Housing Betrays Our Core Values - The Local Reporter

· 4/20/2022: Daily Tar Heel Editorial “Chapel Hill’s Affordable Housing Plan Endangers Low Income Families”

· 3/30/2022 Joe Fisher, WRAL, “Chapel Hill residents concerned over possible housing complex on top of coal ash site”

· 4/18/2021: North Carolina Policy Watch Monday numbers: Chapel Hill’s plan to build offices and housing atop a coal ash disposal site

· 3/29/2021: WRAL Article: Chapel Hill Hopes to Build Affordable Housing on Top of Coal Ash

· 4/18/2021: North Carolina Policy Watch Monday numbers: Chapel Hill’s plan to build offices and housing atop a coal ash disposal site

· National Coal Ash Stories

· 1/12/2022: James Bruggers, Amy Green, NPR, In Orlando, a mountain of coal ash evades EPA rules. It's not the only one.

· 2/7/2020: Anita Desikan, “The EPA’s New Shameful Tactic: Avoid People Poisoned by Coal Ash,“ The Equation

· 3/09/2019: Center for Biological Diversity & Sierra Club Sue UNC Over Coal Ash Pollution, 2019:

· 12/19/2014: Wendy Koch, “EPA Decides that Coal Ash, Which pervades our homes, is non-hazardous,” National Geographic,

· 6/28/2022 “Report Says the Steel Wall Holding Back Coal Ash Fill in Michigan City Could Fail”,

· 11/25/2019 Video on Coal Ash at Huntersville & Mooresville

· 4/18/2021: North Carolina Policy Watch Monday numbers: Chapel Hill’s plan to build offices and housing atop a coal ash disposal site

· 3/6/2022: EPA, Coal Ash Basics

· 7/9/2022: EPA, Rules for Removing Coal Ash