New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of 44 "high hazard potential" coal ash waste dumps across the country. The "high hazard" rating applied to sites where a dam failure would most likely result in a loss of human life, the environmental agency advisory said, but did not assess the structural integrity of the dam or its likelihood of failure. The list, released late on Monday, was compiled as part of the agency’s inventory of coal ash sites after more than a billion …
E.P.A. Lists ‘High Hazard’ Coal Ash Dumps
New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of 44 "high hazard potential" coal ash waste dumps across the country. The "high hazard" rating applied to sites where a dam failure would most likely result in a loss of human life, the environmental agency advisory said, but did not assess the structural integrity of the dam or its likelihood of failure. The list, released late on Monday, was compiled as part of the agency’s inventory of coal ash sites after more than a billion …
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