People who spend summers fishing and canoeing on the Middle Fork Vermilion River should be pleased to know its water quality should be improving in the coming years. The State of Illinois reached a cleanup agreement last month with a company accused of polluting the state s only national scenic river. The settlement requires Dynegy Midwest Generation to clean up toxic coal ash it dumped near the Middle Fork for nearly 60 years. .
The EPA is closing a loophole that exempted half of all coal ash dump sites from regulatory oversight. But for some communities, it's too little, too late.
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"Despite rules requiring remediation, only a few of the nearly 300 U.S. power plants storing toxic ash the residue of burning coal have started cleanups or have plans to do so. Many of these sites are polluting groundwater, putting the drinking water for millions at risk."
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