"LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Black dust from the giant coal ash heap across the street from Kathy Little's Louisville home swirls in the wind, coating her windows, her car, and blows indoors to settle on the furniture. The ash blanketing Little's property is a byproduct of a nearby coal-burning power plant. Since it's full of fine particles of arsenic, chromium and other metals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering classifying the ash as a hazardous material."
"'It's a constant struggle and it's a sad situation because there's not a lot of people that know that goliath is over there,' Little said of the ash dump near her home -- at Louisville Gas & Electric's Cane Run Station.
Power plants in the U.S. produce about 140 million tons of the ash each year."
Dylan Lovan reports for the Associated Press April 18, 2012.
SEE ALSO:
"LG&E Agrees To Pay Fine, Reduce Blowing Ash" (Louisville Courier-Journal)
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