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In Hurricane Florence's Path: Giant Toxic Coal Ash Piles
The toxic waste from coal-burning power plants contains arsenic and heavy metals. Days of torrential rain and flooding could weaken and collapse the impoundments.
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Environmental advocates are warning that the giant impoundments, often built beside waterways, are at risk of spills or collapsing.
They've seen what extreme rainfall can do: When Hurricane Matthew crossed North Carolina two years ago, it caused a breach in a cooling pond, and coal ash leaked from a nearby coal ash basin at a power plant on the Neuse River.
That was a Category 1 storm. Florence was barreling toward the coastal Carolinas as a much more powerful Category 4 Wednesday morning.
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- InsideClimateNews
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Environmental advocates are warning that the giant impoundments, often built beside waterways, are at risk of spills or collapsing.
They've seen what extreme rainfall can do: When Hurricane Matthew crossed North Carolina two years ago, it caused a breach in a cooling pond, and coal ash leaked from a nearby coal ash basin at a power plant on the Neuse River.
That was a Category 1 storm. Florence was barreling toward the coastal Carolinas as a much more powerful Category 4 Wednesday morning.
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- InsideClimateNews
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