Congress Wants The Alabama Legislature to Regulate Coal Ash.

      The U.S. House approved * legislation that would prevent the EPA from regulating coal ash, the gunk left over when coal-fired power plants burn tons of coal to create electricity, leaving it to the states.
     Some of the plants, including a TVA plant in Tennessee, stored the coal ash in "ponds", one of which broke and polluted acres of land and water near the plant,
     Eventually most of that coal ash was put on trains and shipped to a for-profit commercial waste dump in Perry County Alabama.

 

        Given the choice, how will the State of Alabama regulate coal ash?
        Not much at all.
        That's not gunk from burning coal. That's jobs.
* That link takes you to the committee web page, on which the committee tries to convince you how harmless coal ash is. Not so much as a single video clip from opponents on the committee.