It's (coal ash) being looked at now by the government as a non toxic hazard waste (what's that?) even though it contains mercury & arsenic. It's taken the authorities 28 yrs worth of studies to come up with that brillant decision. Who's feeding what crap to who? There's no guestion & there nevr has been that it's toxic, it's a hazard to the enviorment & the surrounding communities, the storage, which is not federally monitered & is state regulated, is still being considered safe. What's with that, this has happened 4 times. This is an eviormental disaster, how can it possibly be spun out any other way. The footprint alone, left by strip & mountain top mining methods are so harmful to the enviorment, the surrounding communities & society that who ever's making a buck from this is now better than a war proffiteer. I don't hold much hope in seeing anything changing much but I do hope that the new administation at least doesn't go the route of the present one & give the enegry industries "carte blanche" to do as they please as has been the case for the last 8 yrs.

Barry