U.S. EPA orders more safety tests at coal-ash ponds | The Colum...

Since 1960, a 70-acre complex of ponds outside the Philip Sporn power plant has been used to store millions of tons of damp coal ash removed from its largest boiler.

[timmy]

AEP it better to be safe than pollute the land and enviroment ! We know Companies and there stock holders and there concerns which is profit !

[DrC Ohio]

Good for the US EPA, hopefully they will hold utilities accountable for this toxic material. Not only that, they should have more regulations for the storage of coal slurry. SW Ohio has been nailed time and time again by coal mining companies. Yet, those companies get off the hook.

All the more reason to begin switching to alt. energy.

[John Engineer]

The metals (pollutants) come from the coal seam that originated underground. The coal is burned and ash remains which still contains the metals. We bury the ash along with the metals back underground, albeit at a different location. Now the metals which orginated underground are labeled as pollutants. Is it becasue these metals are in a new location that they are classified as pollutants or is it because statist politicians thirst for the control of yet another aspect of industry that makes these metals pollutants? The metals were not pollutants before they were mined. Why are they pollutants now? Maybe the bureaucrats should declare the earth as a toxic waste dump.