Alabama Environmental Groups Agree…

Alabama Environmental Groups Agree…

Coal ash should be dug up and moved because it is polluting Alabama’s waters. As much as possible should be recycled into concrete and the rest should be moved to upland, lined landfills using the best available technology standards, ensuring all people, communities and businesses of Alabama are out of harm’s way.

 

Signed,

Alabama Rivers Alliance
Alabama Environmental Council
Alabama Interfaith Power and Light
Black Warrior Riverkeeper
Cahaba Riverkeeper
Cahaba River Society
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper
Coosa River Basin Initiative
Coosa Riverkeeper
Clean, Healthy, Educated, Safe & Sustainable Community, Inc. (CHESS)
Environmental Defense Alliance
Friends of Big Canoe Creek
Friends of the Locust Fork River
Friends of the Magnolia River
Friends of Turkey Creek Nature Preserve
Gasp
Hurricane Creekkeeper
Little River Waterkeeper
Mike Freeman Fishing
Mobile Baykeeper
Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition
The People’s Justice Council
Shoals Environmental Alliance
Sierra Club Alabama Chapter
Sierra Club Mobile Bay Group
Southern Environmental Law Center
Tennessee Riverkeeper
Waterkeepers Alabama
Wild South
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MORE ABOUT COAL ASH
Coal ash is the toxic waste that remains after coal is burned. It contains high concentrations of heavy metals, including mercury, arsenic, selenium, chromium, and lead which are hazardous to human health, wildlife, and waterways near coal ash pits.

 

Read more about coal ash on a watershed near you:

Black Warrior River | Coosa River | Mobile Bay | Tennessee River

 

Read more about coal ash throughout Alabama:

Alabama Rivers AllianceSouthern Environmental Law Center