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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Standing out among the more than 250 people who testified at the recent<b> <a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2010/09/hundreds-speak-out-at-epas-coal-ash-hearing-in-north-carolina.html">Environmental Protection Agency hearing</a>

on proposed coal ash regulations </b>in Charlotte, N.C. was one speaker

with an especially distinguished background: <b>Charles Steele Jr. (<i>in photo at right</i>),

the first African-American member of the Tuscaloosa City Council and a

former Democratic state senator from Alabama who went on to lead the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the legendary civil rights

organization whose first president was Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Steele left SCLC last year and now runs a <a href="http://www.charlessteeleandassociates.com/">consulting firm</a> in Atlanta. [CSA unfortunate acronym]
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Given Steele's work on behalf of civil rights, one might have expected

him to support better regulation of coal ash -- perhaps talking about

the fact that many of the U.S. communities at greatest risk from the

most potentially hazardous impoundments have <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-nilles/poverty-near-the-high-haz_b_225013.html">higher-than-average poverty rates</a>. Or about the finding that environmental contamination from coal ash dumps is <a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2010/05/power-politics.html">concentrated in high-poverty communities</a>. Or about the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2009/05/tva-sends-spilled-coal-ash-to-impoverished-black-communities-in-georgia-and-alabama.html">controversial decision</a> to dump the toxic coal ash waste from the <a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2010/05/disaster-in-east-tennessee.html">Tennessee Valley Authority's 2008 Kingston disaster</a>

in Tennessee in an impoverished, majority-black farming community in

Alabama, in a landfill where runoff now contains levels of

cancer-causing arsenic at more than <a href="http://creekkeeper.blogspot.com/2010/02/arrowhead-landfill-complaint-021610.html">80 times the safe drinking water standard</a>.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><h3 class="r"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_County_coal_slurry_spill">Martin County coal slurry spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></font></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><cite class="Rm">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_County<b>coal</b><b>slurry</b>spill</cite></font></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="32"><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv _SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:0;ri:;site:en.wikipedia.org" data-async-trigger="cra-0-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwin3PPT7ObNAhXBNSYKHdASAVUQ5CsIJjAA"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wikipedia<span class="Bs" /></font></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="st">The Martin County <em>coal slurry</em> spill was an accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000 when the bottom of a <em>coal slurry impoundment</em> owned by Massey Energy in Martin ... Martin County, Kentucky · <em>Tailings dam failures</em> · <em>Dam failures</em> in the United States · <em>Coal</em> mining disasters in Kentucky · Waste disposal<wbr /> ...</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="39"><h3 class="r"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Creek_flood">Buffalo Creek flood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></font></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><cite class="Rm">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Creek_flood</cite></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="39"><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:1;ri:;site:en.wikipedia.org" data-async-trigger="cra-1-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwin3PPT7ObNAhXBNSYKHdASAVUQ5CsILTAB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wikipedia<span class="Bs" /></font></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="st">The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston <em>Coal</em> Company's <em>coal slurry impoundment dam</em> #3, ... Aerial View of Buffalo Creek area taken the day after <em>impoundment dam</em> #3 <em>failed</em>.</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="46"><h3 class="r"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.statejournal.com/story/20267555/why-did-consols-robinson-run-slurry-impoundment-dam-fail">Why did Consol's Robinson Run slurry impoundment dam fail ...</a></font></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><cite class="Rm">www.statejournal.com/.../why-did-consols-robinson-run-<b>slurry</b>-<b>impoun</b>...</cite><span class="YM" /></font><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:2;ri:;site:statejournal.com" data-async-trigger="cra-2-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwin3PPT7ObNAhXBNSYKHdASAVUQ5CsIMDAC"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The State Journal<span class="Bs" /></font></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="st"><span class="f">Dec 5, 2012 - </span>Why did Consol's Robinson Run <em>slurry impoundment dam fail</em>? Posted: Dec ... Harrison Co. first responder: <em>Coal slurry</em> soupy, milkshake-like ...</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="50"><h3 class="r"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.southwings.org/our-work/coal-slurry-ash/">Coal Slurry and Coal Ash | SouthWings</a></font></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><cite class="Rm">www.southwings.org/our-work/<b>coal</b>-<b>slurry</b>-ash/</cite></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="50"><div class="s"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="st"><em>Coal sludge impoundments</em>, or “ponds,” can store billions of gallons of liquid <em>coal</em> ... Catastrophic <em>dam failures</em>—such as the one at Buffalo Creek in 1972 that ...</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="56"><h3 class="r"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.wise-uranium.org/mdafin.html">The Inez coal tailings dam failure (Kentucky, USA)</a></font></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><cite class="Rm">www.wise-uranium.org/mdafin.html</cite></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="56"><div class="s"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="st"><span class="f">Jan 18, 2008 - </span>"The <em>failure</em> of the Big Branch Refuse <em>Impoundment</em> and subsequent inundation of the 1-C Mine occurred because Martin County <em>Coal</em> ...</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="63"><h3 class="r"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/08/canada-largest-coal-slurry-spill/">Did Canada Just Have the Largest Coal Slurry Spill in Its History?</a></font></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><cite class="Rm">ecowatch.com/2013/11/08/canada-largest-<b>coal</b>-<b>slurry</b>-spill/</cite></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="63"><div class="s"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="st"><span class="f">Nov 8, 2013 - </span>... may be the largest <em>coal slurry</em> spill in its history when a <em>dam failed</em> at the ... The U. S. government <em>coal impoundment</em> location and information ...</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="70"><h3 class="r"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/many-coal-sludge-impoundments-have-weak-walls-federal-study-says/2013/04/24/76c5be2a-acf9-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html">Many coal sludge impoundments have weak walls, federal study says ...</a></font></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><cite class="Rm">https://www.washingtonpost.com/...<b>coal</b>-<b>sludge</b>-<b>impoundments</b>...</cite></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="70"><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:6;ri:;site:washingtonpost.com" data-async-trigger="cra-6-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwin3PPT7ObNAhXBNSYKHdASAVUQ5CsISzAG"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Washington Post<span class="Bs" /></font></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="st"><span class="f">Apr 24, 2013 - </span>Many of the man-made ponds for storing toxic <em>sludge</em> from <em>coal</em> mining operations have ... with compaction of <em>dams</em> but that it “has not found any indication that any <em>coal slurry impoundment</em> is in imminent danger of <em>failure</em>. ... There are 596 <em>coal slurry impoundments</em> in 21 states, according to the Mine Safety ...</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="77"><h3 class="r"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://ohvec.org/issues/slurry_impoundments/articles/2002_12.html">Is a coal slurry impoundment disaster coming to a community near you?</a></font></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><cite class="Rm">ohvec.org/issues/<b>slurry</b>_<b>impoundments</b>/articles/2002_12.html</cite></font></div></div></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="st">But not to worry, those <em>impoundment failures</em> prompted federal mine safety ... Behind the <em>dam</em>, they create <em>slurry</em> lakes, which store the liquid waste leftover from ...</span>

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