WHEREAS, ARIPPA represents environmental remediation
companies operating circulating fluidized bed (CFB) electric
generating plants that utilize coal refuse to produce
alternative energy; and
WHEREAS, CFB plants remove polluting coal refuse piles from
abandoned mine land areas, convert it into alternative energy
and beneficially utilize CFB ash to reclaim environmentally
damaged areas back to their natural state; and
WHEREAS, ARIPPA member plants eliminate public health and
safety hazards produced by coal refuse piles, which can
spontaneously combust, emitting ground-level pollutants, leach
acid mine water and other hazardous substances, and are major
sources of land, air and water pollution; and
WHEREAS, ARIPPA member plants in Pennsylvania have
collectively removed and converted more than 230 million tons of
polluting coal refuse into alternative energy; and
WHEREAS, ARIPPA member plants have reclaimed more than 7,000
acres of formerly environmentally damaged, mining-scarred lands
in Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, ARIPPA member plants have restored more than 1,200
miles of formerly dead and polluted Pennsylvania streams; and
WHEREAS, ARIPPA member plants have eliminated public safety
hazards, including hundreds of uncontrollably burning coal
refuse fires emitting ground-level pollutants; and
WHEREAS, ARIPPA plant members have employed, directly and
indirectly, thousands of Pennsylvania residents; and
WHEREAS, The communities, lands and streams surrounding these
alternative energy plants have experienced vast environmental
and economic improvements due mainly to the decades of hard work
and dedication these workers and the coal refuse-to-energy
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