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email article WASHINGTON A coal-powered electricity plant in Puerto Rico that is releasing toxic coal ash should be shut down immediately because it is harming patients health, several House members said. Whether through production or storage, there is no good outcome related to coal ash, said Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), who is originally from the Dominican Republic, which also has a similar plant. It leeches into the water and soil and contaminates part of the water, flora, and fauna. The health impacts we have seen from coal ash in pregnant women and children born in and around coal ash storage . has literally harmed a generation of Dominican-born children with birth defects and conditions that are fatal. I hope that this can be a lesson that we can learn and act on to address, he said. ....
June 30, 2021 Waste product often dumped in communities of the least powerful MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today questioned expert witnesses at a Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Toxic Coal Ash: Adverse Health Effects from the Puerto Rico Plant and Options for Plant Closure.” In April, Congressman Cohen introduced the Ensuring the Safe Disposal of Coal Ash Act, which would strengthen protections against coal ash contamination by rectifying deficiencies in the 2015 Coal Ash Rule weakened by the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In his questioning of witnesses Congressman Cohen said in part: “Coal ash is a toxic by-product of coal plants filled with dangerous heavy metals and can become lodged in people’s lungs and cause asthma, lung disease or cancer…What’s going on (with coal ash) in Puerto Rico is awful…It’s also going on in Memphis, Tennessee, and up ....