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Scrubbers at Coal Fired Power Plants Are Simply Transferring Pollution from the Air to Our Waterways

"But the cleaner air has come at a cost. Each day since the [scrubber] equipment was switched on in June, the company has dumped tens of thousands of gallons of wastewater containing chemicals from the scrubbing process into the Monongahela River..." - excerpt from the New York Times article.

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