EPA: Protect People, Not Polluters
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Highlighting the need for federal standards to protect public health from hazardous coal waste, activists unfurled a banner at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville this morning that read "EPA: PROTECT PEOPLE, NOT POLLUTERS." The peaceful protest was held at the location of EPA's Coal Ash public hearing on two vastly different proposals for the regulation of coal ash disposal.
Activists took this step to ensure that the EPA establishes federal minimum standards for toxic coal ash that protect our communities and the environment.
Polluting coal companies want to keep coal cheap. The only way they can do that is to offload their costs to people and the environment. They dump coal residue wherever they can without consideration of the consequences. Polluters only do the minimum required by law so that they can reap the maximum profit.
We know that toxins in coal ash have been linked to cancer, respiratory illness, neurological damage, organ disease, and reproductive and developmental problems. We know that it contains arsenic, lead, and mercury among other toxic metals. We know that business as usual will not protect the health and welfare of the American people.
Despite this, “King Coal” is fighting common sense federal minimum standards with all their corporate might.
Coal ash has contaminated our drinking water supplies and will only get worse as the waste stream grows in volume and toxicity.
Business as usual isn’t going to help the good people that happen to live next to coal ash dumping sites. Business as usual won’t remediate these areas. And nowhere is that concern as tangible as it is in Kentucky....
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/protect-people-not...
Activists took this step to ensure that the EPA establishes federal minimum standards for toxic coal ash that protect our communities and the environment.
Polluting coal companies want to keep coal cheap. The only way they can do that is to offload their costs to people and the environment. They dump coal residue wherever they can without consideration of the consequences. Polluters only do the minimum required by law so that they can reap the maximum profit.
We know that toxins in coal ash have been linked to cancer, respiratory illness, neurological damage, organ disease, and reproductive and developmental problems. We know that it contains arsenic, lead, and mercury among other toxic metals. We know that business as usual will not protect the health and welfare of the American people.
Despite this, “King Coal” is fighting common sense federal minimum standards with all their corporate might.
Coal ash has contaminated our drinking water supplies and will only get worse as the waste stream grows in volume and toxicity.
Business as usual isn’t going to help the good people that happen to live next to coal ash dumping sites. Business as usual won’t remediate these areas. And nowhere is that concern as tangible as it is in Kentucky....
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/protect-people-not...
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