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Too Toxic Not To Regulate
A 2011 Coal Ash Spill on Lake Michigan By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator Frustrated by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) continued delay in issuing a final rule to protect the public and environment from toxic coal ash pollution, today a group of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit to force EPA to finish its rule. Coal ash, the byproduct of burning coal to produce electricity, contains a concentrated smorgasbord of nasty metals – including arsenic, lead, mercury, and selenium (just to name a few!). Power plants generate over 140 million tons of coal ash