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Everyone has The Right To Breathe clean air. Watch a video featuring Earthjustice Attorney Jim Pew and two Pennsylvanians—Marti Blake and Martin Garrigan—who know firsthand what it means to live in the shadow of a coal plant's smokestack, breathing in daily lungfuls of toxic air for more than two decades.

Coal Ash Contaminates Our Lives. Coal ash is the hazardous waste that remains after coal is burned. Dumped into unlined ponds or mines, the toxins readily leach into drinking water supplies. Watch the video above and take action to support federally enforceable safeguards for coal ash disposal.

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Chris Jordan-Bloch is Earthjustice's Multimedia Producer. He uses videos, photos, audio and words to creatively tell stories about Earthjustice and the people and places we fight to protect. For 10 years Chris worked as a newspaper photojournalist, and he is thrilled to now be a part of the environmental movement at such a critical time. Chris loves his job, but sometimes fantasizes about leaving his camera behind and opening a coffee roasting company in a ski town with deep powder or a beach town with a perfect point break. He makes a mean home-roasted Costa Rican coffee that his wife assures him is excellent.

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01 March 2011, 1:34 PM
Chris Jordan-Bloch

Radioactive water being dumped into our rivers?

NY Times investigation uncovers more dirty secrets about fracking

The recent New York Times investigation into the dangers posed to our air and water by fracking is a must-read. The meat of the investigation deals with radioactive material in wastewater from the fracking process and its possible migration into our lakes and rivers. The paper's findings are alarming to say the least, here are just a few:

  • More than 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater were produced by Pennsylvania wells over the past three years, far more than previously disclosed. Most was sent to treatment plants not equipped to remove many of the toxic materials in drilling waste.
  • At least 12 sewage treatment plants in three states accepted gas industry wastewater and discharged waste that was only partly treated into rivers, lakes and streams.
  • Of more than 179 wells producing wastewater with high levels of radiation, at least 116 reported levels of radium or other radioactive materials 100 times as high as the levels set by federal drinking-water standards. At least 15 wells produced wastewater carrying more than 1,000 times the amount of radioactive elements considered acceptable.
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