What is coal ash?  What is fly ash?  What is bottom ash?  How is this firm involved with these waste by-products? 

Coal ash is the powder left behind when power companies burn coal to generate electricity at coal-fired power plants.

The two types of ash collectively known as coal ash are fly ash and bottom ash.  Fly ash is the remnant of burnt coal that is captured in the power plant's smoke stack.  Bottom ash is composed of the larger incombustible by-products which do not "fly" up the power plant's smoke stack.

Scientific studies support the conclusion that coal ash concentrates heavy metals, including lead, mercury, arsenic, selenium, cadmium, vanadium, boron, and hexavalent chromium (VI).  Unless disposed of with great care, coal ash poses great dangers to human health.

 
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Proud to be on the vanguard of such environmental litigation, Yoakam & Etheridge, PLC is actively involved with the difficult questions associated with the appropriate disposal of coal ash.

Ted Yoakam currently represents over 450 individuals who allege that their air and drinking water were contaminated by heavy metals and ammonia leached from a nearby site created with at least 1.5 million tons of coal ash.  Mr. Yoakam is the first attorney in the nation to file suit against a power company for pollution to groundwater using a Section 468 (B) environmental trust.

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