The 2008 coal ash spill was among the biggest industrial disasters in U.S. history. In a new book, Jared Sullivan recounts the accident, the lawsuits and the lasting damage.
...Hundreds of American coal-powered stations have shuttered since the Kingston disaster, and during the Biden administration the Environmental Protection Agency has initiated regulation of coal-ash dump sites. But their legacy lives on: in the cancers of coal country residents, the air that tastes of aluminum foil, the pine trees drained of their colors, the riverbeds of radioactive sludge, the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and on the consciences of those who continue to say, This is unbelievable. We did not expect this.
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...Hundreds of American coal-powered stations have shuttered since the Kingston disaster, and during the Biden administration the Environmental Protection Agency has initiated regulation of coal-ash dump sites. But their legacy lives on: in the cancers of coal country residents, the air that tastes of aluminum foil, the pine trees drained of their colors, the riverbeds of radioactive sludge, the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and on the consciences of those who continue to say, This is unbelievable. We did not expect this.
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