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Arsenic: When high amounts of arsenic is inhaled or ingested through coal ash waste, diseases such as bladder cancer, skin cancer, kidney cancer and lung cancer can develop. [ 5 ] [ 11 ] Ultimately, exposure of arsenic over a long period of time can cause mortality. [ 5 ]
Illinois has many coal ash dumpsites with coal ash generated by coal-burning electric power plants. Of the state's 24 coal ash dumpsites with available data, 22 have released toxic pollutants including arsenic , cobalt , and lithium , into groundwater, rivers and lakes.
Coal and coal waste products (including fly ash, bottom ash and boiler slag) release approximately 20 toxic-release chemicals, including arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel, vanadium, beryllium, cadmium, barium, chromium, copper, molybdenum, zinc, selenium and radium, which are dangerous if released into the environment. While these substances are ...
SELC officials wrote to the town in January about the “unacceptable health risks” of radioactivity and arsenic from exposure to coal ash deposits. The EPA has been assessing coal ash ...
Evergy’s plant included a four acre area for coal ash — located less than a half mile from the Kansas River — and a 56 acre landfill.
The state Department of Health on Sunday released laboratory results showing ash from homes in Lahaina contain elevated levels of toxics including arsenic, lead, antimony, cobalt and copper ...
The Kingston Fossil Plant Spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.
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