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==Impacts of Coal Dust in Somerset==
On more than one occasion, coal dust from the Brayton Point Station has covered the nearby neighborhood. The [[coal dust ]] has been carried from the Station while deliveries of coal were unloaded from ships on windy days.<ref name="scycc">Nancy Krause, [http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/local_wpri_somerset_coal_dust_covers_neighborhood "Somerset cars, yards covered in coal",] WPRI, October 30, 2008.</ref><ref name="cdcsn">Melissa Sardelli, [http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/local_wpri_somerset_neighborhood_covered_in_coal_dust_brayton_pt_dominion_energy_plant_20091109_mds "Coal dust covers Somerset neighborhood",] WPRI, November 7, 2009.</ref> On October 29, 2008, coal dust covered nearby Ripley Street where residents reported having coal dust in their homes despite the windows being closed.<ref name="scycc"/> A 45,000 ton shipment of coal was unloaded overnight and the community woke up to the dust the following morning.<ref name="scycc"/>
The most recent of these incidents was early November 2009, when thirty-six homes were covered.<ref name="cdcsn"/> This was another occasion when residents woke up in the morning to find their neighborhood covered in coal dust.<ref name="cdcsn"/> In a news interview, resident David Gasperini said, "I can clean stuff, but I can't clean our children's lungs, our animals’ lungs and stuff like that. Who knows if 20 or 30 years from now if anybody is going to end up getting any kind of diseases or anything from this stuff."<ref name="cdcsn"/> Dominion blamed an extra-dry shipment of coal combined with winds.<ref name="cdcsn"/> The company said it would no longer unload coal in winds over 15 miles per hour.<ref name="cdcsn"/> Dominion sent insurance adjusters to the affected neighborhood and said they would reimburse the residents for the clean up.<ref name="cdcsn"/>
