This petition is to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to label Coal Ash as Hazardous Waste. Many of the heavy metals in Coal Ash are already labeled as Hazardous Waste because it has been proven that some of these ingredients are dangerous to our health and can cause many forms of impairment and possibly cause death. It would only make sense to label the waste that contains Hazardous Waste as Hazardous Waste also.
This petition is to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to label Coal Ash as Hazardous Waste. Many of the heavy metals in Coal Ash are already labeled as Hazardous Waste because it has been proven that some of these ingredients are dangerous to our health and can cause many forms of impairment and possibly cause death. It would only make sense to label the waste that contains Hazardous Waste as Hazardous Waste also.
We the undersigned, ask that you, as the Environmental Protection Agency, change the Label of Coal Ash to Hazardous Waste. There are many ingredients in Coal Ash that are already labeled as Hazardous Waste because they contain dangerous heavy metals that can impair the human body or even cause death to the human body. we feel that something that is this dangerous should be classified as Hazardous Waste and we ask that you please do so.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and to hopefully change the classification of Coal Ash.
We signed the "Petition to define Coal Ash as a Hazardous Waste" petition!
# 154:
2:38 pm PDT, Jul 28,Lisa M Wheeler, Kentucky
My husband hauls coal ash in Kentucky. He has been sick and tired (extremely) since he started about two months ago. When he is off the job for a few days, he feels better. I strongly believe that the coal ash dust that he is breathing is making him sick. This STUFF IS HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH!!!
# 153:
7:32 pm PDT, Jul 11,Barbara Duval, Tennessee
# 152:
9:04 am PDT, Jun 26,Carly Crosby, Michigan
# 151:
5:04 am PDT, Jun 24,Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 150:
1:08 am PDT, Jun 22,Amanda Taylor, Florida
# 149:
12:11 pm PDT, Jun 12,Gwen Adler, Oregon
# 148:
5:08 am PDT, May 25,Kenneth Andersen, Norway
# 147:
9:23 am PDT, Apr 20,Name not displayed, France
# 146:
1:41 pm PDT, Apr 12,Mervi Rantala, Finland
# 145:
6:41 am PDT, Mar 24,Rebecca Robertson, Tennessee
# 144:
2:44 am PDT, Mar 24,Dawn Sharp, Tennessee
# 143:
12:27 pm PDT, Mar 8,Ari R. Kolman, Canada
Another Disgusting Example of Undemocratic Big Business Corruption, wasteful spending, discrimination and Crimes against Humanity & Animal!!”. Wake up Losers!! Don’t you ever read what’s happening out there? Don’t you ever go online to educate yourself? What kind of freakin’ Government are you?? Conservative Illiterate!! Ridiculous Unconstitutional Pork barrel Policy Twisting Environmental Hazard Animal Abuse Fanatics!! We Will All Distribute This Page to Big Media and Start Letting those “Useless Talking Heads on TV News” know what’s really worth reporting to the world… Useless they are because who knows if they even know about this? But if they did, they should Report it as we will also through our blogs.. … I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. PS: HARPER IS CORRUPT TO THE CORE CAN WE GET HIM TO STEP DOWN!?! Another Disgusting Example of Undemocratic Big Business Corruption, wasteful spending, discrimination and Crimes against Humanity & Animal!!”. I’m sickened and disgusted.. . I Beg all Intelligent and Responsible People to Please Stop Letting This Happen STILL.. How can you when your kids and your friend’s kids and your kids kids and your kids friends kids and so forth; Need you to stand up and take action daily for their own safety.. WE’VE GOT TO STOP THE MADNESS AND IT STARTS WITH GOVERNMENTS!! We Will Petition Them Continuously and write them letters continually so that they can hear our cries daily with what ever they are doing, what ever they are saying, and what ever they start destroying next.. The Government will continue to allow the destruction of planet, the killing of animals, and the poison of people.. Radio Active Foods, Water, Diseases, Products, and particles in the air to ingest when we breath. The perfect receipt for Government Profit… No more Palm oil products.. NO MORE NUCLEAR PLEASE. NO MORE Coal-Fired Power Plants. NO MORE OIL AND NO MORE DRILLING or MINING…. No more animal tested surgical procedures and products for humans.. NO MORE PESTISCIDES, NO MORE FERTALIZERS.. AND NO MORE DEVELOPMENT TO USE COAL ASH FOR ANYTHING BUT PUTTING IT UNDER THE GROUND..
# 142:
3:46 pm PST, Mar 7,Candi Donovan, Tennessee
i think this is a grea t petition,if it has to do with our health,our govt. will not help us someone has to.there are so many other things that are hazardous but we will get rid of them one at a time
# 141:
11:00 am PST, Mar 6,Sharon D Banks, Illinois
# 140:
10:40 am PST, Mar 6,Denise Hunter, Illinois
It is time to do the right thing in all areas and consider the citizens of this country as our responsibility and our sisters and brothers. In doing so, issues like this do not become a discussion, but an obligation.
Denise
# 139:
1:33 am PST, Mar 6,Rita Bunch, Tennessee
# 138:
6:58 pm PST, Mar 5,Kim Pierce, Tennessee
These people that claim they are sick now. Just wait. The long term effect of this will be deadly to our children, our children's children and our environment. The damage is done. There is no Fix. This is a man made disaster that should have never happened.
# 137:
4:52 pm PST, Mar 3,Callista Perry, Massachusetts
# 136:
6:56 pm PST, Feb 27,Doris Teo, Singapore
People have the rights to know the truth of their enviroment !!! Please classify Coal Ash correctly.
# 135:
2:43 pm PST, Feb 27,Julia Tawyea', Pennsylvania
# 134:
6:28 pm PST, Feb 25,Joanie Smith, Tennessee
I live next to the coal ash spill, it is a few hundred feet from my property where my family and our pets live. We have head aches, dizziness, stomach pain, coughing and vomiting. My house is coated with coal ash and I can only assume so are our lungs. We need coal ash labeled with truth so it can be treated accordingly and people don't suffer because of political agendas...for the love of God this is 2009 it's time to admit coal ash is dangerous!
# 133:
6:26 am PST, Feb 24,Brenda Howard, Tennessee
# 132:
6:04 am PST, Feb 24,Name not displayed, Tennessee
# 131:
9:42 am PST, Feb 22,Octavian Paul Draja, Romania
# 130:
5:42 pm PST, Feb 21,Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 129:
8:26 am PST, Feb 21,Michelle Bond, Kansas
# 128:
1:01 pm PST, Feb 20,Janet Brown, Tennessee
Coal ash contains many carcinogens and should be declared hazardous waste
# 127:
5:46 am PST, Feb 20,Mary Kollar, Tennessee
# 126:
5:34 am PST, Feb 20,Karen Pawlyk, New Jersey
# 125:
9:49 pm PST, Feb 19,Shu-li Chen, Tennessee
Together we will be able to correctly and ethically define coal ash as a hazardous waste!
# 124:
3:29 pm PST, Feb 19,Joanne Hall, Tennessee
As an RN, and professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee, I believe this disaster is comparable to Chernobyl. C ancers, asthma, neutoxocities from heavy metals, and chronic obstructive lung disease are just a few health problems already evident. The EPA FEMA and Obama need to know this is a major national disaster, and this is turning into another Katrina. Wake up!
Joanne M Hall, PhD, RN FAAN
# 123:
10:53 am PST, Feb 19,Timea Melinda Kovacs, Romania
# 122:
7:06 pm PST, Feb 17,M Menane, Tennessee
Let us learn from the Kingston coal ash fiasco what we're dealing with.
# 121:
10:49 am PST, Feb 17,Lynda Harding, United Kingdom
# 120:
5:43 am PST, Feb 17,David Stewart, Tennessee
# 119:
5:28 pm PST, Feb 16,Name not displayed, Tennessee
I'M AFRAID OF OUR WELL WATER AND MY DAUGHTER'S WELL SHE IS CLOSER TO THE RIVER I AM A NURSE AND I KNOW CANCER CAUSING AGENTS ARE IN THAT WATER FROM THR COAL ASH SPILL AND IT WILL SEEP INTO OUR WELL WATER
# 118:
4:10 am PST, Feb 16,Name not displayed, Florida
The regulation of coal ash is only one of many issues that need increased awareness and regulation. To find out more about what the local industries are doing in your backyard get involved with your local community and city government action groups. It's time for us to spend more time listening, looking and making changes.
# 117:
9:27 am PST, Feb 15,Marita Elsts, Virginia
Coal ash is hazardous to the long term health of both our citizens and animals. It is time that the EPA recognizes it and does what it is mandated to do, protect the environment, not turn the other cheek because coal companies are richer than the inhabitants than live near the mines.
# 116:
7:58 am PST, Feb 15,Cathie Bird, Tennessee
The hazards along the coal chain of events from extraction to transport to burning to coal waste disposal have been downplayed long enough. Coal combustion waste is a hazardous material! Mountaintop removal mining destroys watersheds! Heavy metals and CO2 emissions from coal power plants are poisoning us, and future generations! Even if we can achieve zero emissions, we will always have coal ash. Other hazards of coal mining will continue to destroy coalfield citizens and communities, from the sacred lands of the Hopi and Navajo in the West to the Appalachians in the East. The hazards of coal are like Voldemort, and it's time that we, the people, demand that EPA, OSM and other agencies bring the truths of human suffering into the language of regulation and out of the realms of that which "must not be named."
# 115:
6:25 pm PST, Feb 14,Carl Brodeur, Massachusetts
I have been fighting this issue for the last 3 years in my town. We have 2 CCW dumps in town and the Mass DEP is completely uninterested in listening or providing proper monitoring. They are living in the "Dark Ages" when it comes to fly ash issues. All they want to do is have you go away. Look at the EPA's track record on this. They have avoided it since the 1990's. It is irresponsible and unacceptable. Utilities have the EPA in a holding pattern. Each metal in CCW is a hazardous material, yet combined they present no threat according to the EPA and Utility lobbiest. Incredible!
# 114:
9:50 am PST, Feb 14,Diana Graves, Ohio
# 113:
4:53 am PST, Feb 14,Susan Wiles, Florida
# 112:
11:08 am PST, Feb 13,Douglas Cornett, Michigan
# 111:
9:12 am PST, Feb 13,Jerry Kelley, Tennessee
# 110:
6:24 am PST, Feb 13,Brad Graves, Tennessee
Help protect our environment and the future of our childrens environment.
# 109:
11:32 am PST, Feb 12,Damira Kuanyshpayeva, Finland
# 108:
5:51 am PST, Feb 12,Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin
# 107:
5:10 am PST, Feb 12,Jason Patrick, Tennessee
# 106:
7:14 pm PST, Feb 11,Mary Ann MacLaren, Michigan
# 105:
3:57 pm PST, Feb 11,William Felder, Tennessee
I helped take clean water to the victims. Don't want to have to do that again. We need to be investing in decentralized renewable infrastructure.
# 104:
3:51 pm PST, Feb 11,Colin Robinson, Tennessee
Coal ash and slurry can never be disposed of and is a massive environmental hazard. Please consider it as such!
# 103:
1:19 pm PST, Feb 11,Alison Casteneda, California
# 102:
1:17 pm PST, Feb 11,Ginelle Heller, Indiana
# 101:
12:57 pm PST, Feb 11,Charlie Smith, California
Because peoples' lives have been uprooted, Because their Liberty to live in their own home has been infringed, Because their Pursuit of Happiness has been impaired.
Because of these things that we hold self-evident, we demand that any time 4 Million tons of anything can fall on us, that it be regulated!
