Will EPA Protect Our Families From Toxic Coal Water Pollution?

huffingtonpost.com - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mary Anne Hitt - August 6, 2013

In 1982, complying with a federal court order stemming from a lawsuit filed by environmentalists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, finally issued regulations governing toxic pollution discharges under the 1972 Clean Water Act. Industry polluters had used political clout to delay those regulations for a decade. But even as EPA was promulgating maximum standards for every other industry that year, powerful operatives for the big utilities and King Coal were able to persuade Ronald Reagan's EPA to omit prohibitions on the worst sources of toxic water pollution in America -- the poisoned flows from waste lagoons and coal ash piles at power plants.

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