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Alabama Power Plant Risks Catastrophic Coal Ash Spill

February 6, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Alabama Power Plant Risks Catastrophic Coal Ash Spill

BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a storm surge that sweeps more than 21 million tons of toxic coal ash from a power plant into the Mobile River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. […]

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Zeta Strikes Louisiana, Fifth Hurricane This Season

October 28, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Zeta Strikes Louisiana, Fifth Hurricane This Season

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 28, 2020 (ENS) – Hurricane Zeta has just made landfall as a 110 mile per hour, Category 2 hurricane near Cocodrie, Louisiana, a fishing, shrimping and crabbing village in Terrebonne Parish, due south of the city of Houma. It’s the third hurricane to hit Louisiana since late August. […]