The True Cost of Turning on the Lights
Category: GREEN
Coal ash is toxic as a bad marriage, but here's the irony: there are almost no regulations on its disposal, so power plants, which are generally on rivers, largely dump it in a series of giant pits, in incomprehensible quantities, where the rain leaches the toxics down into the groundwater.
By J Henry Fair, ContributorPhotographer, 2014-12-15