Cleaning Up Coal Ash and Power Plant Pollution

The Clean Water Initiative is working to protect the community from water pollution by toxic power plants. For decades, the power plant industry has opened a free way to release unlimited amounts of harmful chemicals including drinking water directly to surface water. Since new national protection measures should be implemented, we will compete with the power plant industry to weaken their efforts.

"Playing cards EPA, plants are placed in public health protection and drinking chemicals to drink water sources, by allowing the benefits of pollutants" Jennifer Peters, director of National Water Clean Water Action Plan Says. "For decades, power plants have been dumping harmful pollutants such as toxic metals, such as bromide, which would cause carcinogenic by-products by drinking a water treatment process Lack of strong safeguards I will drink a water system to limit this contamination and that customer will continue to bear this burden of unchecked water pollution at the power plant. "

The announcement was announced the day before the deadline of hundreds of report on electric power company announced, coal ash pollution US power plant report. The pollution report is as a first step to wipe out the leak of the ash pit. "In addition to protecting the US against communities and ashes from the river, EPA also tried to preserve contamination of our waterway and drinking water supply utilities," he said. "These proposals will weaken the protection of our groundwater from the arsenic and mercury pollution rules and will expand the use of coal ash pit lined drain adjacent our waterway.With American families and pretty Water should be well developed. "

What is coal ash? Coal ash is the waste left behind by burning (burning) coal. Includes fly ash (which carries finely divided particles of chimney, trapping contamination control device) and crude material falling into Haas. Most coal ash comes from a coal-fired power plant. Why is it dangerous? The position of coal mining, coal ash is usually made of metals such as heavy arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, selenium, and aluminum, antimony, barium, beryllium, boron, chlorine, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, thallium, vanadium , And zinc

Every year, the country's coal-fired power plant generates 140 million tons of coal ash. This is a toxic byproduct left behind by the combustion of coal. Since all ash has to reach somewhere, it is abandoned in the backyard of power plants nationwide - open pits and unstable surface drainage ponds. Nearby communities are facing equally dangerous contamination of ash toxins or infiltration, such as potential large-scale disasters such as the 2008 Tennessee large coal ash leak, and loose ones of drinking water sources So, many sites lack adequate safety measures to breathe into nearby communities