Toxic Coal Ash Protections Rolled Back by EPA

Citizen Truth Staff
Nov 5 · 3 min read
View of the Tennesse Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant toxic coal ash spill in December 2008, appx. 1 mile from the retention pond. The pile of ash in the photo is 20–25 feet high, and stretches for two miles or so along this inlet (the inlet empties into the Emory River). (Photo: Brian Stansberry)

The new toxic coal ash rollbacks join a litany of other slashed environmental protections, from methane to asbestos to carbon emissions.

The Trump Administration’s relentless rollbacks of environmental protections continued on Monday, as the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new plans to

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