Group protests lack of coal-ash cleanup in Joliet
August 17, 2011 8:26PM
Jeff Stant (left), with Environmental Integrity Project, and Brian Perbix, with Prairie Rivers Network, protest outside U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger's Joliet office on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
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Updated: October 19, 2011 4:21AM
Environmental Integrity Project members protested at U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s Joliet office Wednesday, saying Kinzinger is voting to block the EPA from cleaning up coal ash in Illinois, the state with the second highest concentration. An EIP report alleged Joliet ground water has been contaminated by Midwest Generation’s use of the former Lincoln Quarry as a landfill disposal site for coal ash since 1962. Visit www.environmentalintegrity.org for the report.
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