Coal Ash

  The fight over the remnants of coal-fired power plants is far from over. The utilities are battling any added regulation, while environmental groups are trying to head off legislation that would block the EPA from regulating it.
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      Coal ash is just about everywhere, but in Alabama it became an issue primarily when hundreds of tons from a big spill at a TVA plant in Kingston Tennessee was shipped by rail to the largest commercial landfill in the East in Perry County. There are also big
holding ponds at power plants in Alabama.  
  

    

     Now a coalition of those environmental groups has written a letter to U.S. Senators asking them to vote against the bill. There is only one individual from Alabama who has signed it, the Executive Director of the group Cahaba Riverkeeper in Birmingham.