Starbody

neither did i, until reading an article on Salon.com titled Dirty business.

A coal slurry impoundment is a reservoir of thick liquid waste from coal processing that is constructed by damming the mouth of a valley with rock and earth. To residents living near these impoundments, they are disasters waiting to happen. The EPA called the Inez spill the worst environmental catastrophe in the history of the Eastern United States. Far more extensive in damage than the widely known 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska, the Martin County Coal slurry spill dumped an estimated 306 million gallons of toxic sludge down 100 miles of waterways.

Prior to the administration change, Jack Spadaro’s job was to find out why it happened to ultimately to keep it from happening again. this seems both logical and absolutely necessary especially with a spill of this magnitude. well, read on.