APNewsBreak: US utilities find water pollution at ash sites
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) " Major utilities have found evidence of groundwater contamination at coal-burning power plants across the U.S. where landfills and man-made ponds have been used for decades as dumping grounds for coal ash, according to data released by plant owners under a Friday deadline.Heightened levels of pollutants" including arsenic and radium in some cases " were documented at plants in numerous states, from Virginia and North Carolina to Washington and Alaska.The [...]
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