Health & Justice
Report: Coal ash’s impacts on water quality
Apr 12, 2021
Authored by
Charlotte Jameson
Chief Policy Officer
Abby Wallace
Movement Building Coordinator
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Abby Wallace
Movement Building Coordinator
Charlotte Jameson
Chief Policy Officer
This Michigan Environmental Council report details the ways in which coal-fired power plants have contaminated Michigan’s Great Lakes, rivers, streams, groundwater and drinking water with toxins like mercury, arsenic and lead. It also outlines solutions.
It builds off an earlier report released in 2018.
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