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Leaking Coal Ash - Right into Our Water!
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator Last month dozens of reporters gathered on the shores of Mountain Island Lake in North Carolina. They were there to hear national and regional environmental leaders discuss the worst toxic water pollution problem – the wastewater discharges from coal-fired power plants, which contain a witches’ brew of dangerous elements, such as lead, mercury, selenium and arsenic. Mountain Island Lake is the drinking water reservoir for nearly 800,000 residents in and near Charlotte. The reservoir was also used as a water pollution dumping ground for
Meeting a New Leader at EPA
By Bob Wendelgass, President & CEO Yesterday, I was honored to be part of a small group of environmental leaders invited to meet with Gina McCarthy in her first week as the new EPA Administrator. She thanked us for helping her win confirmation. Her nomination was held up for 137 days by conservative Senators opposed to a strong EPA. The thousands of messages from Clean Water Action members and other concerned Americans let our Senators know that we weren’t going to stand for their obstruction of an incredibly qualified public servant like Gina McCarthy. She laid out three issues as her