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Hi Mother Jones Reader,

After living through everything from catastrophic coal ash spills to contaminated groundwater, communities across the South and the Southern Environmental Law Center spent years fighting for safeguards that protect our families from toxic coal ash.

Yet the Trump administration just moved to gut a federal rule that protects us from this toxic pollution — giving politically powerful polluters what they asked for and putting our drinking water sources at serious risk.

Our communities need clean water that is not contaminated with arsenic, mercury, lead, and other harmful toxins from coal ash. Exposure to these toxins is known to cause cancer, developmental issues in children, and other serious illnesses.

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But the risks don’t stop there. Current standards also prevent catastrophic coal ash spills that can devastate communities. We know firsthand the dangers of storing coal ash sitting in groundwater in leaking, unlined pits next to our rivers and lakes:

In 2014, Duke Energy spilled coal ash and millions of gallons of polluted wastewater into the Dan River, contaminating waterways in North Carolina and Virginia.
In 2008, TVA spilled over a billion gallons of ash slurry into people’s homes and the Emory River in Kingston, Tennessee.

More than 10 years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency put nationwide standards in place after communities across the South fought for them alongside the Southern Environmental Law Center, the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan environmental legal advocacy organization rooted in and focused on the South.

We are fighting again to keep our communities safe—and you can help. We need your voice now to stop this dangerous reversal. Act today and tell EPA and Congress to say NO to toxic coal ash in our water.

Thank you for standing up for our communities,

Nick Torrey

Southern Environmental Law Center

Southern Environmental Law Center
120 Garrett St Ste 400, Charlottesville, VA 22902

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