<![CDATA[Millions Of Tons Of Toxic Coal Ash Piling Up Across US]]>

1.0 link 156813 <![CDATA[Millions Of Tons Of Toxic Coal Ash Piling Up Across US]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/10/millions-of-tons-of-toxic_n_156813.html 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 data found that 156 coal-fired power plants store ash in surface ponds similar to one that ruptured last month in Tennessee. On Friday, a pond at a northeastern Alabama power plant...

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