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EPA: Coal Ash Poses Significant Health Risk

October 28, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

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coal, coalash, coalpollution, coalspill, coalwaste, dirtycoal, EPA, powerplants

Without a doubt coal is dirty and dangerous. Consider that the nation's power plants spew out 130 million tons of coal combustion waste every year.  Much of this so-called coal ash, which is what's left at the bottom of the smokestacks after coal gets burned...continued

Rob Perks
Rob Perks
Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
Washington, D.C.
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and...
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