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Posted: 1:10 PM Jan 14, 2009
Obama EPA will investigate coal ash sites
The Obama administration will immediately begin to assess the hundreds of coal ash disposal sites at power plants across the country in the wake of two spills in Alabama and Tennessee.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration will immediately begin to assess the hundreds of coal ash disposal sites at power plants across the country in the wake of two spills in Alabama and Tennessee.
Lisa Jackson, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, said the agency will also reconsider federal regulation.
Coal ash ponds storing waste created by burning coal are not subject to federal regulations and state oversight varies.
Jackson made the pledge Wednesday during her confirmation hearing before a Senate panel.
In 2000, the EPA recommended setting a national standard for the hundreds of coal ash disposal sites nationwide. But the EPA never acted on that recommendation during the Bush administration.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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