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"Coal Ash Poses Significant Risk, EPA Report Says" [1]

"A new EPA report says that the potentially toxic pollutants in coal ash – from mercury to arsenic - are of particular concern because they can concentrate in large amounts that are discharged to waterways or seep into groundwater.

The more than 230-page report, which comes about ten months after the massive coal ash spill at TVA’s Kingston power plant in East Tennessee, has brought accolades from the environmental community and a call for regulatory action."

Anne Paine reports for the Nashville Tennessean October 27, 2009.
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Source: Nashville Tennessean [7], 10/29/2009
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/coal-ash-poses-significant-risk-epa-report-says [2] http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091027/NEWS01/91027104/Coal%20ash%20poses%20significant%20risk%20%20EPA%20report%20says [3] http://www.epa.gov/guide/steam/finalreport.pdf [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [7] http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091027/NEWS01/91027104/Coal ash poses significant risk EPA report says