2 Tennessee Cases Bring Coal’s Hidden Hazard to Light
Published on by Yoshimi Yoshida, Environmental Consultant in Social
Coal ash is a hazardous by-product of burning coal to produce power. Physician for Social Responsibility (PSR) publishes the following statement with regards to Coal Ash and its toxic risk posed against the public health.
"Coal ash – the waste material left after coal is burned – contains arsenic, mercury, lead, and over a dozen other heavy metals, many of them toxic. And disposal of the growing mounds of coal ash is creating grave risks to human health.
Toxic constituents of coal ash are blowing, spilling and leaching (dissolving and percolating) from storage units into air, land and human drinking water, posing an acute risk of cancer and neurological effects as well as many other negative health impacts: heart damage, lung disease, kidney disease, reproductive problems, gastrointestinal illness, birth defects, and impaired bone growth in children.
This ash, which is generated at coal-fired power plants across the country, is the second-largest industrial waste stream in the country."
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