Not exact matches
That's a lot of
toxic chemicals and nasty metals that you
really,
really don't want leaching into the
water supply.
But are you
really arguing that coal plants don't push a
toxic sludge back into the
waters that then carry that
toxic sludge into the rest of the ecosystem?
«One thing that
really motivated us was learning that four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of
toxics like arsenic, mercury, lead, and others that they're allowed to dump into our
water,» said Sierra Club Pennsylvania Organizer Randy Francisco.
The
really troubling part of that statistic is that only 18 percent of electronics are properly disposed of at the end of their lives, which means
toxic chemicals are ending up in landfills and
water supplies here or overseas.