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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 10 > Toxic coal ash piling up in ponds, analysis shows

Toxic coal ash piling up in ponds, analysis shows

Another spill reported Friday in Alabama

By Dina Cappiello / The Bulletin
January 10, 2009

WASHINGTON — Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a situation the government has long recognized as a risk to human health and the environment but has done nothing about.

An Associated Press analysis of the most recent Energy Department....

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