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Coal Ash Water Contamination/20 New Sites - Report to Reveal Locations in 10 States of Toxic Dump Sites Not Tracked by EPA
REPORT TO IDENTIFY NEARLY 20 ADDITIONAL COAL ASH WATER CONTAMINATION SITES IN 10 STATES
Arsenic, Other Pollutants Have Contaminated Groundwater and Soil at Newly Identified Sites in FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, NV, SC, TN and TX; Some 90 Dangerous Dump Sites Overlooked by EPA Flagged by Group to Date.
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News about Environmental Integrity Project
WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 12, 2011 (www.Waternewswire.com) - As Congress looks at ill-considered legislation to roll back oversight of toxic coal-ash pollution, newly discovered evidence of arsenic and other toxins leaking from nearly 20 coal ash dump sites in 10 states - Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas - will be outlined by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) at 1:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday (December 13, 2011).
At the same time, a letter to Congress from nearly 2,000 residents near coal ash dump sites across American will be released for the first time.
WHO:
News event speakers will be:
- Jeff Stant, director, Coal Combustion Waste Initiative, Environmental Integrity Project;
- J. Russell Boulding, principal, Boulding Soil-Water Consulting;
- Frank Michna, a resident and engineer for Caledonia, Wisconsin, who lives near a coal-ash dump site at the Oak Creek power plant;
- Yma Smith, a life-long resident of Labelle, Pennsylvania, who lives near the Matt Canastrale coal-ash/coal refuse dump site; and
- Clint McRae, a rancher near Colstrip, Montana, who lives near coal-ash
ponds of the Colstrip Power Plant.
WHAT:
EIP has been collecting evidence of groundwater contamination near coal ash ponds and landfills for several years, and the more it looks, the more it finds. After EPA documented 67 proven or potential 'damage cases' in 2007, EIP found groundwater or surface water contamination at 70 additional sites. Nearly 20 additional sites will be added where coal combustion waste appears to have contaminated groundwater with arsenic or other pollutants at levels above primary Safe Drinking Water Act Maximum Contaminant Limits for pollutants like arsenic. In addition, the new EIP report will outline information about groundwater at seven previously recognized coal-ash damage cases including groundwater so toxic that it exceeds the threshold for hazardous waste.
WHEN:
1:30 p.m. EST Tuesday (December 13, 2011).
WHERE:
You can join this live, phone-based news conference (with full, two-way Q&A) at 1:30 p.m. EST on December 13, 2011 by dialing 1 (800) 860-2442. Ask for the "coal ash water contamination" news event. A streaming audio replay of the news event will be available on the Web at www.environmentalintegrity.org as of 5 p.m. EST on December 13, 2011.
CONTACT: Leslie Anderson, (703) 276-3256 or landerson@hastingsgroup.com.
The Environmental Integrity Project (http://www.environmentalintegrity.org) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization established in March of 2002 by former EPA enforcement attorneys to advocate for effective enforcement of environmental laws. EIP has three goals: 1) to provide objective analyses of how the failure to enforce or implement environmental laws increases pollution and affects public health; 2) to hold federal and state agencies, as well as individual corporations, accountable for failing to enforce or comply with environmental laws; and 3) to help local communities obtain the protection of environmental laws.
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Published at Water Newswire 2011