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sprinkleeninow

(20,245 posts) Wed Aug 14, 2019, 11:34 PM Aug 2019

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PBS⊙NEWSHOUR: What's Left Behind From Burning Fossil Fuels:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-danger-of-coal-ash-the-toxic-dust-the-fossil-fuel-leaves-behind

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PBS⊙NEWSHOUR: What's Left Behind From Burning Fossil Fuels: (Original Post) sprinkleeninow Aug 2019 OP

Hexavalent chromium, elleng Aug 2019 #1

This segment tonight made me very ill in my soul. n/t sprinkleeninow Aug 2019 #4

Ditto elleng Aug 2019 #5

Gee, why is there so much cancer??? BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #2

'They' don't give a flying crap. $$$ eom sprinkleeninow Aug 2019 #3

Exactly, but some give 'them' reasons to give a flying crap. elleng Aug 2019 #6

I remember when it came out and what it was about. Never saw it 'though. sprinkleeninow Aug 2019 #7

elleng

(130,895 posts)

1. Hexavalent chromium,

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Wed Aug 14, 2019, 11:37 PM

Aug 2019

reminded me of Erin Brockovich.

sprinkleeninow

(20,245 posts)

4. This segment tonight made me very ill in my soul. n/t

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 12:39 AM

Aug 2019

elleng

(130,895 posts)

5. Ditto

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Reply #4)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 12:44 AM

Aug 2019

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)

2. Gee, why is there so much cancer???

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 12:19 AM

Aug 2019

"What's leftover is ash, and in addition to hexavalent chromium, it contains arsenic, mercury, thallium, selenium, lead and more." Lovely.

sprinkleeninow

(20,245 posts)

3. 'They' don't give a flying crap. $$$ eom

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 12:37 AM

Aug 2019

elleng

(130,895 posts)

6. Exactly, but some give 'them' reasons to give a flying crap.

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 12:48 AM

Aug 2019

The chemical, called chromium-6 or hexavalent chromium, was featured in the movie Erin Brockovich, in which Julia Roberts plays an activist leading a lawsuit against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating water with it.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/20/12988838/erin-brockovich-chemical-water-epa-cancer-report

sprinkleeninow

(20,245 posts)

7. I remember when it came out and what it was about. Never saw it 'though.

Reply to elleng (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 01:33 AM

Aug 2019

The idolatry of $$$.

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