Coal Plants Petition Zeldin To Drop Toxic Waste Rules

The Ohio Capital Journal reports:

President Donald Trump comes into office vowing to ease environmental regulations on the utility industry. Now companies that own coal-burning plants in Ohio are asking the new administration to excuse them from cleaning up acres of toxic waste that is soaked in groundwater.

They include the owners of what has been called the nation’s deadliest coal plant and a consortium that has gotten hundreds of millions from Ohio ratepayers as a consequence of the biggest political bribery scandal in state history.

Gavin Power and the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation joined eight other utilities in asking Lee Zeldin, now the commissioner of the EPA, for broad exemptions from cleanup rules. Among them are requirements that they protect groundwater from coal ash — a byproduct that contains toxins such as arsenic, mercury, lead and even radioactive isotopes.

Read the full article. Multiple Ohio Republican leaders have been imprisoned for their roles in the bribery scandal.

Coal-burning companies ask Trump to drop rules demanding clean up of toxic waste: President Donald Trump comes into office vowing to ease environmental regulations on the utility industry. Now companies that own coal-burning plants in Ohio are asking the new administration to excuse them from…

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