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Group calls on state to mandate monitoring at coal ash sites

By Jason Hancock 6/16/09

At today’s monthly meeting, Iowa’s Environmental Protection Commission (EPC), an arm of the state’s Department of Natural Resources that provides policy oversight, will hear from Cedar Rapids-based Plains Justice on the potential public health risks associated with coal ash disposal in quarries and mines and why a system of standardized groundwater monitoring should be mandated.

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