EarthTalk: Coal ash in Tennessee? Postal workers and paper dust?

May 4, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Dear EarthTalk: What were the environmental impacts of the huge coal ash spill in Tennessee this past December? — Dave S, Lynnfield, MA Environmentalists’ call for an end to the age of coal-one of the dirtiest and most common of all the fossil fuels we now use-took on new urgency this past December when some [...]

Postal worker arrested after driving, crashing mail truck without a license

April 25, 2009   Leave a Comment  

If you were driving past the Boston Herald building Thursday afternoon in the area of the I-93 on-ramp, you may have noticed the banged up United States Postal Service vehicle in the guardrail and the cops investigating creating a slight traffic headache. Turns out, a postal worker crashed the truck after, he told police, he [...]