The Biden administration is moving to close a loophole that had exempted hundreds of inactive coal ash landfills from rules designed to prevent heavy metals like mercury and arsenic from seeping into groundwater, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday.Coal ash, a byproduct from burning coal in power plants, contains lead, lithium and mercury.
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