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Ashes of Fire
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27 Sep 2002 |
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| Ashes of Fire Every year, coal-fired power plants in the U.S. produce more than 100 million tons of ash, a byproduct of the burning process containing heavy metals or metal-like substances such as boron, selenium, arsenic, and magnesium. The energy industry claims the ash is benign, but many others fear that it is bad for the environment and human health. Those concerns are all the more pr ... |
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| Topics: energy, Kentucky, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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