As pressure grows on power companies to move toxic coal ash out of leaky, wet impoundments and into dry, lined landfills, the experience of an African-American community near one such landfill in rural Alabama highlights the potential problems with that approach.
Image:
After TVA's coal ash began arriving at a landfill in Uniontown, Alabama, resident Esther Calhoun witnessed the paint peeling off her car and friends becoming ill. She's now the target of a slander and libel suit by the landfill's corporate owner. (Photo by Chris Jordan-Bloch/Earthjustice. For more photos, see Earthjustice's "Ashes: A Community's Toxic Inheritance.")
Image Caption:
<p>After TVA's coal ash began arriving at a landfill in Uniontown, Alabama, resident Esther Calhoun witnessed the paint peeling off her car and friends becoming ill. She's now the target of a slander and libel suit by the landfill's corporate owner. (Photo by Chris Jordan-Bloch/Earthjustice. For more photos, see Earthjustice's <a href="http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/photos-a-toxic-inheritance">"Ashes: A Community's Toxic Inheritance."</a>)</p>