Tell Congress, EPA to reject polluters’ bidding: no backsliding on toxic coal ash 

Your voice and Congress can make a difference now as the Trump administration takes comments on its proposal to eliminate common-sense, nationwide minimum standards that protect clean water and prevent catastrophic coal ash spills and other disasters. Politically powerful coal ash polluters, including Duke Energy, asked the administration to weaken these protections against coal ash pollution.  

This polluter-requested proposal once again puts communities at risk of coal ash disasters and coal ash in our water.  
 
Before these standards existed, both North Carolina and Tennessee suffered catastrophic coal ash spills—TVA spilled over a billion gallons of coal ash slurry into people’s homes and the Emory River in Kingston, TN, in 2008 and Duke Energy spilled coal ash and millions of gallons of polluted wastewater into the Dan River in North Carolina and Virginia in 2014, shutting down the water intake for a community hundreds of miles away, Virginia Beach. Duke Energy’s coal ash also contaminated groundwater near several of its leaking, unlined pits in North Carolina, forcing families nearby who get their drinking water from wells to rely on bottled water. 
 
Coal ash polluters asked the Trump administration to eliminate protections against their coal ash pollution. Help us tell EPA and Congress that it should reject this polluter requested proposal and, instead, keep these safeguards to protect our water and communities against coal ash pollution.