60 minutes each Sunday with Leslie Stahl was looking closely at the problems of product production of coal, commonly known as coal ash. Arsenic coal ash, including the medals toxic control, includingcan leak into ground water and be extremely hazardous to breathe. Stahl starts with a look at devastating coal ash spill that engulfed homes and destroyed whole communities in Tennessee in 2008 when a billion gallons of the toxic sludge in the largest environmental disaster
This disaster brought the issue of coal ash to the national spotlight, and Stahl moves on to how to how coal ash is not labeled a hazardous waste by the EPA, and is currently being used as filler in everything from golf courses to carpeting in schools to kitchen counters. Watch to the end when Stahl presses a power industry lobbyist about whether the material is being currently being
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