Facts about coal ash



Toxic Coal Ash -- Simple Facts 

• Coal ash is dangerous to kids.  Living near a toxic coal ash site is worse for your health than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.

• In Jefferson County we have 2 power plants (Mill Creek and Cane Run) that have containments the EPA has already deemed as possible hazards

• Both the Mill Creek and Cane Run plants are currently leaking harmful substances into our groundwater.

• People living with 1 mile of these toxic coal ash sites have cancer rates 2,000 times higher than what EPA considers acceptable.

• 1.54 million children live near coal sites. 

• Here in Kentucky, there are 44 coal ash disposal ponds, including seven ponds rated “high hazard” and five rated as “significant hazard.” In the Louisville area, coal ash from the LG&E Cane Run and Mill Creek power plants may be contaminating our groundwater.

• Kentucky families are speaking out about this to say, “stop putting our kids’ health at risk.”

• We can stop the proposed expansion of the Cane Run Coal Ash Containment. It has not won final approval and the world is watching!