Are utilities dragging their feet on coal ash contamination?

New report ranks Utah’s Hunter plant No. 9 for pollution associated with ash dumps

Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune File Photo The Sun rises behind steam from a cooling unit at the coal-fired Hunter power plant south of Castle Dale.

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