I know it. But a lot of people don't #CoalAsh #GreatLakes #Michigan
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/epa-coal-ash-rule

New #EPA rules tell polluters in #GreatLakes communities to clean up legacy #coal waste
One advocate calls the #coalash pits in her town a "ticking time bomb." https://grist.org/accountability/new-epa-rules-tell-polluters-in-great-lakes-communities-to-clean-up-legacy-coal-waste/

by #AustynGaffney in @grist:

"Since the mid-20th century, when coal became the dominant fuel to generate electricity, utilities have stored almost 5 billion tons of coal ash at more than 1,000 sites nationwide. These dumps are divided into two categories: ponds that store it in a wet slurry and landfills that store it as dry powder. Most are unlined and many are uncovered, allowing contaminants to leach into waterways or linger in the air. Today, at least 9 out of 10 coal-fired power plants are contaminating groundwater.

"Coal ash contains at least 17 dangerous heavy and radioactive metals, including at least six neurotoxins and five known or suspected carcinogens, such as arsenic, chromium, mercury, lead, radium, and selenium. Prolonged exposure to coal ash can impact every major organ system, causing birth defects; heart, lung, and neurological diseases; and a variety of cancers."

https://grist.org/accountability/closing-coal-ash-loophole-epa-proposal/

#CoalAsh #groundwater #water #pollution #environment #EnvironmentalScience #EPA #Grist

#EPA rules on #CoalAsh dumps. Nice article by the #TusconSentinel

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/013023_coal_ash_crackdown/coal-ash-crackdown-continues-as-epa-denies-extensions-6-power-plants/

Coal ash crackdown continues as EPA denies extensions for six power plants

Among other issues, the EPA determined some plant owners were placing monitoring equipment in locations that could deliver misleading results.

The U.S. EPA on Wednesday denied six coal plants’ requests to keep dumping toxic ash into unlined or inadequately lined pits, signaling the agency’s commitment to enforce the 2015 federal coal ash rules that had been widely flouted by companies and ignored by regulators.

The rules say that pits without legally compliant liners needed to stop receiving coal ash by April 2021, but many companies continued dumping ash in such pits and ponds, with more than 60 seeking extensions to the deadline. The EPA began a series of enforcement actions last year.

#coal #coalash #EPA #cleanwater #environmentaljustice

https://energynews.us/2023/01/25/coal-ash-crackdown-continues-as-epa-denies-extensions-for-six-coal-plants

EPA plans to stop 6 power plants from dumping toxic coal ash into unlined ponds.
#EPA #CoalAsh #Toxins #Coal

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/us/epa-coal-ash-power-plants-climate/index.html

#coalAsh #PuertoRico #mastodonPR

Vuelven a la calle para evitar descargas de #cenizas tóxicas en #Peñuelas

https://www.periodicolaperla.com/actualidad/vuelven-a-la-calle-para-evitar-descargas-de-cenizas-toxicas-en-penuelas/
https://www.periodicolaperla.com/actualidad/vuelven-a-la-calle-para-evitar-descargas-de-cenizas-toxicas-en-penuelas/

RT @IEReporter@twitter.com

Here's IER's #9 story of the year ... Northern #Indiana residents doubt outcome of coal ash cleanup.

https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/posts/northern-indiana-residents-doubt-outcome-of-coal-ash-cleanup

#Hoosiers #iereporter #environmentalnews #coalash #top10

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IEReporter/status/1606379377138102272

The #EPA’s Nov. 18 announcement only concerns the Gen. James Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio, the stepped up environmental enforcement by the Biden administration raises questions for Georgia Power, which has similar plans for certain ash ponds here. #CoalAsh #Groundwater #GeorgiaPower

https://www.ajc.com/news/ohio-decision-could-affect-georgia-powers-plans-for-storing-coal-ash/F63F65MZXRE5RKL24AR3RJ26TY/

RT @IEReporter@twitter.com

More than a dozen #coal ash impoundments in #Indiana continue to threaten state #waterways with cancer-causing metals and other toxic #pollution years after they stopped receiving new coal ash, according to a new report.

https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/posts/coal-ash-ponds-in-indiana-threatening-state-waterways-hoosier-health-report

#coalash #iereporter #health

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IEReporter/status/1594722514525384704

RT @Rachristia@twitter.com

Here is my latest article covering #coalash in #Osceola County, where two scientists say the EPA method for testing coal ash doesn't tell the whole story.
http://www.aroundosceola.com/news/puerto-rican-scientist-calls-importing-coal-ash-to-osceola-county/article_aff980a4-757b-11e9-b14d-9730cc0fb232.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rachristia/status/1127947916776288257