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Hazardous Versus Nonhazardous, State Versus Federal . . . The Coal Ash Debate

February 22, 2011
Karen Aldridge Crawford , Stacy K. Taylor

Reproduced with permission from The Environmental Litigator, Volume 22 Number 2, Winter 2011

Whether referred to as coal ash, coal combustion residuals (CCRs), or coal combustion products (CCPs), the residue or "ash" generated during the combustion of coal is at the center of a heated national debate concerning the use of such materials in construction, fll, and other applications and now the regulation of such materials, poten­tially as hazardous waste, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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