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The coal plant next door: The sad and long legacy of coal ash in Georgia
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By Max Blau for Georgia Health News
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Mark Berry raised his right hand, pledging to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The bespectacled mechanical engineer took his seat inside the cherry-wood witness stand. He pulled his microphone close to his yellow bow tie and glanced left toward five of Georgia’s most influential elected officials. As one of Georgia Power’s top environmental lobbyists, Berry had a clear mission on that rainy day in April 2019: Convince those five energy regulators that the company’s customers should foot the bill for one of the most expensive toxic waste cleanup efforts in state history.
- coal ash
- cleanup
- georgia power
- kingston coal ash spill
- toxic waste
- mark berry
- energy regulator
- public service commission
- coal ash pond
- disinformation
- eminent domain
- radioactive coal ash
- electric utility
- trace metal
- cancer risk
- drinking water contamination
- human health hazard
- leaching
- groundwater
- water well
- erin brockovich
- chronic illness
- heavy metal
- plant scherer
- propublica
- lobbyist
- hexavalent chromium
- cancer cluster