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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3753417" data-attributes="member: 56035"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/28/north-carolina-coal-ash-hurricane-florence/" target="_blank">Hurricane Florence Released Tons of Coal Ash in North Carolina. Now the Coal Industry Wants Less Regulation.</a>Even as coal ash storage basins are leaking massive amounts of pollution in the wake of Hurricane Florence, the coal industry is working on a novel legal strategy to stop the federal regulation of this toxic byproduct of coal combustion. The very same week that coal ash turned some river water in North Carolina into <a href="http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2018/09/25/coal-ash-flowing-like-pudding-in-neuse-river-near-dukes-goldsboro-power-plant/" target="_blank">gray pudding</a> and the pollution amassed to the point that it could be seen from <a href="https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/nasa-satellites-polluted-carolina-rivers-ocean" target="_blank">space</a>, coal companies have been successfully limiting their liability for this contamination under the Clean Water Act.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3753417, member: 56035"] [URL="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/28/north-carolina-coal-ash-hurricane-florence/"]Hurricane Florence Released Tons of Coal Ash in North Carolina. Now the Coal Industry Wants Less Regulation.[/URL] [U]Even as coal[/U] ash storage basins are leaking massive amounts of pollution in the wake of Hurricane Florence, the coal industry is working on a novel legal strategy to stop the federal regulation of this toxic byproduct of coal combustion. The very same week that coal ash turned some river water in North Carolina into [URL='http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2018/09/25/coal-ash-flowing-like-pudding-in-neuse-river-near-dukes-goldsboro-power-plant/']gray pudding[/URL] and the pollution amassed to the point that it could be seen from [URL='https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/nasa-satellites-polluted-carolina-rivers-ocean']space[/URL], coal companies have been successfully limiting their liability for this contamination under the Clean Water Act. [/QUOTE]

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