A year after a massive barge ran aground, spilling coal ash into the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Hanna Park, a committee with the city of Jacksonville is reviewing the incident.
While the chemicals are toxic on their own, the EPA does not classify coal ash as hazardous.
The I-TEAM discovered that private companies routinely brought ash waste from coal-fired plants in Puerto Rico into a private dock in Jacksonville. The ash is then hauled by private vendors for a number of uses. Atlantic Beach Mayor Ellen Glasser monitored the situation closely and has been a vocal speaker at meetings about the accident. The city of Atlantic Beach passed a resolution calling for an end to coal ash shipments.
“It just stayed there for months and months,” she said. “If something it happened just in a few days, it probably would not have gotten much attention. But the fact that the salvage operation just couldn’t right it, just couldn’t get it out of there, it just prompted more and more questions from people that lived at the beach and our visitors.”In response to the incident, several environmental groups -- including the St.
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