Coal-fired power plants are the nation's biggest water polluters,
spewing millions of pounds of toxic metals and other pollutants like
arsenic, boron, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and selenium into
surface waters each year.
Beyond West Virginia, need another example of how close to home this contamination can be? Duke Energy's coal ash pollution is contaminating North Carolina's Mountain Island Lake - a drinking water source for more than 750,000 people in the greater Charlotte area.
Additionally, Duke Energy's coal ash pollution from one coal plant in
North Carolina kills 900,000 fish every year in Sutton Lake -- and
that's just how it affects the fish!
In West Virginia, parents are wondering if they can let their kids
drink the water, pregnant women are being told to drink bottled water --
and we don't even know yet the full effects of these leaked chemicals
on the land and aquatic wildlife.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/23/1271966/-The-News-Just-Keeps-Getting-Worse-for-West-Virginia-and-It-Doesn-t-Stop-There?detail=facebook
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