The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill
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A coalition of environmental groups is embroiled in a year-long fight with an Alliant Energy subsidiary over its discharge of groundwater possibly contaminated with coal combustion residuals. By Anika Jane Beamer The Ottumwa-Midland Landfill holds ash from one of Iowa’s few remaining coal power plants.