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Keep Coal Ash Out of the Transportation Bill!

Coal ash: it’s the toxic leftovers from coal-fired power plants that is filled with arsenic, lead, mercury and other hazardous chemicals. Recently, the House passed a massive Transportation Bill, attaching an amendment that would prohibit the EPA from setting enforceable safeguards for this toxic waste.

Urge your senators to reject any amendments to the transportation bill that gut federal coal ash protections. The bill is meant to ensure safe roads and safe communities. Polluting it with amendments that will poison our communities is unfair to millions living near coal ash sites.

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