The News Review:
- Concerns over ash pond pollution grows
- Ford expected to reopen Cleveland engine plant
- BAE Systems moving 200 jobs from Texas to Ind.
Concerns over ash pond pollution grows
USA Today
— The danger of combustion waste from coal-fired power plants became big news in December when a dam holding back a mountain of ash at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant collapsed spreading a billion gallons of sludge over several hundred acres near Knoxville. By the time that slide occurred however the problems that coal-ash residue can cause had already been part of life for nearly two years here at the site of the Gibson power plant the nation’s third-largest coal facility owned by Duke Energy. Ash ponds — ponds filled with ash waste — at the Gibson plant tainted both a new wildlife sanctuary for endangered birds and the drinking water of the small community of East Mount Carmel in 2007. Two years later the cleanup is still ongoing. The problems here as well as those in Tennessee and elsewhere have environmental advocates calling for national standards for handling the massive quantities of ash and other coal-combustion wastes — more than 125 million tons a year according to the American Coal Ash Association. A 2007 study by the U.
Ford expected to reopen Cleveland engine plant
The Associated Press
plant in suburban Cleveland which has been idle for nearly two years is about to begin making a new fuel-efficient engine for some of the company’s 2010 model cars. Ford has called an 11 a. EST Friday news conference to announce that its Cleveland Engine Plant No.
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BAE Systems moving 200 jobs from Texas to Ind.
Chicago Tribune
BAE spokeswoman Lisa Albiston said the company will starthiring at the end of March and continue adding jobs until June2010. The additional jobs will boost the Fort Wayne work force tonearly 1000. Fort Wayne plant operations director Bob Hoffman saysabout 75 percent of the new jobs are will be production workers. The rest will work in engineering and support.