Cleaning Up Coal Ash and Power Plant Pollution

For decades the power plant industry enjoyed a free pass to dump unlimited amounts of dangerous chemicals directly into our surface water, including sources of water used for drinking. Clean Water Action is fighting to protect communities from toxic power plant water pollution.

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The Water Polluter Loophole

Trump's EPA is out to please its industry allies at the expense of public health and the environment. One of the latest assaults is on the Clean Water Act’s coverage of pollution that flows into lakes, rivers, and bays through groundwater.
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EPA wants to open a big loophole for water polluters

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Comments on EPA's Revised Pollution Standards for Power Plants, May 2023

Coal plants have gotten a free pass to dump millions of pounds of toxic metals, nutrients, chlorides, bromide, and other pollutants into our nation’s waters for over 40 years. t is long past time these power plants treat all of their wastewater using modern and effective pollution control technologies, as required by the Clean Water Act. It is long past time these power plants treat all of their wastewater using modern and effective pollution control technologies, as required by the Clean Water Act.

Letter to EPA: 93 organizations urge finalizing strongest possible coal plant wastewater treatment standards

Coal plants have gotten a free pass to dump millions of pounds of toxic metals, nutrients, chlorides, bromide, and other pollutants into our nation’s waters for over 40 years. t is long past time these power plants treat all of their wastewater using modern and effective pollution control technologies, as required by the Clean Water Act. It is long past time these power plants treat all of their wastewater using modern and effective pollution control technologies, as required by the Clean Water Act.

RE: Comments on Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15, Docket Number

While we commend EPA’s efforts, we are seriously concerned that the agency is not moving quickly enough to address PFAS wastewater discharges from other point source categories that are known or suspected of using these toxic “forever chemicals.”

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