ATLANTA — For years, Georgia environmentalists have wondered if the Environmental Protection Agency would wield a federal rule forbidding storing heavy metal-laden and cancer-causing coal ash in groundwater with the same resolve they used in Ohio and Alabama.
A letter sent from EPA to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division this month indicates they are.
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