David Bronner, CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, recently called on state leaders to address the massive coal ash pond that sits along the Mobile River, calling it a “huge environmental bomb.”
We’ve been up and down this creek before. My AL.com colleague Margaret Kates is on it. Here are some excerpts from her reporting:
The coal ash pond at Barry Electric Generating Plant, about 25 miles north of Mobile, contains around 22 million cubic yards of coal combustion residuals – that is what’s left after coal is burned for energy. It sits next to the Mobile River, and environmental activists argue that it poses a threat both to the river and the groundwater nearby…