10/01/2024
Soil testing is an important element to buying a home: recently some homeowners in a wealthy suburb discovered builders had put about a million tons of coal ash in the ground under construction projects in town. Since 1980, 180 million tons of coal ash have been used as a substitute for dirt in construction projects around the US, mainly as fill under roads and buildings, according to the American Coal Ash Association trade group. Neither the EPA nor most states tracked where it was used, so they don’t know now where most of the ash is buried. (WSJ)
