Why is anyone fighting to save these things again? A detailed report in the New York Times just revealed that hundreds of coal plants across the country are routinely dumping thousands of gallons of waste water into rivers and lakes–rivers and lakes that millions of people get their drinking water from. So here's why all that dumping is going on, in a nutshell–coal plants, as you well know, are extremely heavy polluters
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US Coal Plants Dump Thousands of Gallons of Waste Into Drinking Water Supplies a Day
