Coal Ash Contaminates Our Lives

Coal ash is a toxic residue of a coal-fired power plant and is filled with chemicals that cause cancer, developmental disorders and reproductive problems. It poisons our water and kills fish and wildlife

However, despite the threats, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the White House have not taken any measures to protect drinking water from coal ash pollution.

These strict protective measures are now being withdrawn after a long court fight to acquire the first federal safeguards for coal ash. On July 18, 2018, in response to the petitioner 's petition, Andrew Wheeler, US Environmental Protection Agency chief, took steps to establish the first phase rule, which weakened the settlement that won on behalf of 10 public interest groups and the Moapa band Announced. Protection measures outlined in the article. Paiutes

In the petition, the Utilities Waste Activity Group requested the EPA to remove protection measures and to delay the important compliance period indefinitely. These deadlines include the obligation for public utilities to sample drinking water to detect pollution, purify poisonous drinking water, and close down leakage landfills that release hazardous chemicals.

On September 14, 2017, the US Environmental Protection Agency has decided to 'rethink' safeguards for coal ash reactors. In a letter to the owners of industrial environmental protection groups and coal-fired power plants, the US Environmental Protection Agency said that they would approve legal petitions from industrial polluters.

The industry petition calls for considerable weakening of health and environmental standards, and the US Environmental Protection Agency said the new regulation will weaken groundwater purification standards, weaken drinking water protection standards, extend the deadline to close radio leaks, Announced that it will allow hundreds of leak pools to keep working. Please allow state employees, not qualified experts, to determine if the site complies with the rules.

We are seeking long-term solutions to this toxic threat in court. We will act on behalf of dozens of customers and alliance partners to break legislative attempts to interfere with the federal government's feasible coal ash prevention measures

We need strong protection measures to protect our health and the environment. Polluters wipe out their toxic turmoil and do not want the US Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to ignore this growing problem. But we can jointly reveal the issue of coal ash and promote decision makers to protect the air we drink and the water we drink.

Water source water (and fish) contaminated with soot ash can be contaminated in several ways: spills and erosion, dust particles in the atmosphere falling on the surface, contaminated groundwater moving to surface water , Direct discharge of coal ash outflow due to heavy rain and flooding. Ash pond water and landfill leachate are directly discharged through the waste disposal pipeline. The presence of toxic substances in water and sediments may cause fish to absorb them through cockroaches and eat contaminated food sources (algae, worms and other fish food sources absorb ash toxic substances It has been proved to be). These contaminants are transferred to the human food chain.

And pollute the environment. The unlined coal ash pond in Cartersville, Georgia, has developed a water sump of 30 feet deep, eventually reaching 4 acres. An estimated 2.25 million gallons of coal ash and water are released to the branches of the local stream, temporary arsenic is occurring in the public drinking water source. Next, improvement measures such as dredging coal ash from the creek was taken. The Brandy tributary reservoir along the Louisiana border in the northeastern state of Texas, the Wales reservoir in the north-east of Dallas, and the Martin Lake reservoir in southeastern Dallas are affected by contaminated runoff. The Texas Department of Health issued a fish consumption recommendation report in response to rising selenium levels in fish in the reservoir. One was to warn the reservoir to eat less than 8 oz of fish every week. Another recommendation urges women pregnant or potentially pregnant with children under 6 years of age

This announcement was issued just before the publication deadline of the report by utilities and coal ash pollution was recorded at hundreds of US power plants. The pollution report is as a first step to wipe out the leak of the ash pit. "In addition to protecting the American community and rivers from coal ashes, the US Environmental Protection Agency is trying to save utilities that pollute our waterway and drinking water supply," he said. "These recommendations will weaken the rules for protecting groundwater from arsenic and mercury contamination and will continue to expand the use of unlined coal ash pits next to our waterways.