Politico has a list of over 100 dumping sites for coal ash, that FEMA has declared are in flood zones.
"That can't be good."
It isn't. Coal ash tends to contain things like arsenic, mercury and lead. You don't want to drink the stuff.
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Some states have already taken action, but Trump's EPA has intentionally reduced/removed regulations on exactly this topic. And in those states where action is being taken, duh, the coal companies are fighting it because dealing with their toxic smoke/ash would break the narrative of clean, beautiful coal.
For more information as to why this is a growing problem, in case "arsenic, mercury and lead" wasn't enough, please consult this article
U.S. has its wettest 12 months on record – again. It's by the NOAA. It's from July. As in, "last month" July.
I live in NYState, which as you can see, is clear of this specific risk. Y'all fucked down there.
EDIT: I forgot to mention,
this Duke study from 2009 (check Duke on the map above) details some of the things coal ash can do to you. Also, apparently in contains radium, too. But the study was mostly about being inhaled. The study was done because, big surprise, a coal ash storage site broke open, took six years and a billion dollars to fix, and killed 30 people with brain cancer and shit in Dec 2008.
That was
one flood.