"The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) announced the EPA’s findings in a report that maintains there are at least 20 other locations where coal ash is contaminating local groundwater. In a statement, EIP Director Eric Schaeffer said, “EPA’s list of polluting coal ash dumps barely scratches the surface.” This comes after House Republicans successfully passed a bill in July, in a 265-155 vote largely along party lines, that would preclude federal regulation of ash and leave it to the states. Regulation is already largely left to the states, Lisa Evans, Senior Administrative Counsel at Earthjustice said in an email, and “as a result, the nation is a patchwork of programs, with many states imposing few, and sometimes, no, regulatory safeguards.”
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:42:23 +0000
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