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EPA Hid Risks Of Coal Ash: Report [1]

"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Bush administration kept secret for nearly five years data that showed increased cancer risks from drinking water polluted by coal-ash impoundments, according to a new report issued Thursday.

Under President Bush, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials never made public an October 2002 study that outlined increased risks of as high as 1 in 50 additional cancer cases. ...

The Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice on Thursday issued a report that tries to explain in simple language the findings in both EPA documents, which examined more than 200 coal-ash landfills and surface impoundments." Ken Ward Jr. Reports in the Charleston Gazette May 7, 2009.

Waste [2]
National (U.S.) [3]
Public [4]
Source: Charleston Gazette [5], 05/08/2009
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-hid-risks-of-coal-ash-report [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste [3] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [4] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [5] http://wvgazette.com/News/200905070785