Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) that her committee can't publicly disclose the location of coal ash dumps across the country.
The pollution is so toxic, so dangerous, that an enemy of the United States -- or a storm or some other disrupting event -- could easily cause them to spill out and lay waste to any area nearby.
It has been compared to Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s seminal work that shaped US environmental policy....
From the ground in this extreme northern part of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding ice seems...
