Target:EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and the U.S. Senate Sponsored by:Earthjustice
The EPA promised to regulate coal ash, a toxic, dangerous waste, after more than 1 billion gallons of it burst from a Tennessee storage pond last December, poisoning water supplies, destroying homes and threatening hundreds of residents.
But despite the threat, coal ash remains federally unregulated and uncontrolled. Our kitchen garbage is better regulated.
Coal ash can cause cancer, birth defects, lung and organ damage and other health problems. It contains such dangerous chemicals as arsenic, lead, mercury, chromium and cadmium. There is enough coal ash in ponds and landfills across the country to flow continuously over Niagara Falls for more than 3 days straight!
The law authorizes the EPA to provide strong protections that will greatly reduce the threat to our water supplies and our health. However, the EPA must use the strongest parts of the law in order to ensure protection for all communities threatened by coal ash disposal.
Your support is important because the coal and power industries don't want to clean up their mess. Tell the EPA that you support regulating coal ash as hazardous waste and prohibiting the creation of new ash ponds.
We took action on “Regulate Toxic Coal Ash as Hazardous Waste”!
# 4,826:
9:31 am PST, Nov 10,Donny Flynn, Colorado
We need dangerous waste not just regulated but completely eliminated!
# 4,825:
9:19 am PST, Nov 10,Gossiaux Genevieve, Belgium
# 4,824:
8:11 am PST, Nov 10,Juliene Lipson, California
# 4,823:
11:01 pm PST, Nov 9,Mandi TT, California
# 4,822:
7:34 pm PST, Nov 9,Name not displayed, Ohio
# 4,821:
5:43 pm PST, Nov 9,Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 4,820:
3:35 pm PST, Nov 9,Brenda Duff, West Virginia
# 4,819:
3:34 pm PST, Nov 9,Judith Basye, California
Come on EPA and do your job.The year is almost over and you have done nothing.Meanwhile people are getting cancer and dying waiting for you to take action.
# 4,818:
3:03 pm PST, Nov 9,Richard Carr, Georgia
# 4,817:
2:53 pm PST, Nov 9,Michelle Stepp, Washington
# 4,816:
2:47 pm PST, Nov 9,Carol Martin, Arizona
# 4,815:
2:45 pm PST, Nov 9,Linda Thrasher-rocker, Louisiana
# 4,814:
2:24 pm PST, Nov 9,Suzanne La Muniere, New York
# 4,813:
2:23 pm PST, Nov 9,Mark Werner, Colorado
# 4,812:
2:22 pm PST, Nov 9,Grace Bloodgood, Wisconsin
Please regulate this toxin. I for one really like to breathe - preferably clean air!
thank you,
Grace Bloodgood
# 4,811:
1:50 pm PST, Nov 9,Megan Sudnik, California
# 4,810:
1:32 pm PST, Nov 9,Lauren Parkison, Tennessee
# 4,809:
1:24 pm PST, Nov 9,Shirley Simmons, California
There are killing their own customers-regulate them until they go to green energy.
# 4,808:
12:57 pm PST, Nov 9,Kerry Dorsey, California
Please do what you need to complete the job that you were established to do! Thank you. Your time, consideration and efforts are most and truly appreciated. Thanks again!
# 4,807:
12:19 pm PST, Nov 9,Sammy Castagna, North Carolina
