An environmental advocacy group is pushing Austin City Council members to take up an agenda item to independently test for toxins caused by coal ash at the partially city-owned Fayette coal power plant. | seippetc
for 80% of Austin Energy’s greenhouse gas emissions and 28% of the city’s, according to Austin's joint sustainability committee.
Now White said local environmental advocacy groups are coming together to figure out how they can address this issue. Abel Russ, a senior attorney with EIP who specializes in coal ash laws, said these results came from monitoring done at the power plant of the groundwater near the pits where the coal ash is dumped. Coal ash is disposed of in two ways, in a landfill or a coal ash pond. Fayette uses both, Russ said.
“[Fayette’s] not doing anything about it as far as I know,” Russ said. “And they're also not even collecting all the data they should be collecting. So we don't really know the full extent of the problem because the data collection has been so spotty.” found arsenic, cobalt and other heavy metals at Fayette. Coal ash is also known to produce mercury and lead, but it's unclear to what extent, if any, those two elements are in the groundwater.
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