Phildelphia's Dirty Secret
13 December 2000 - 5:00am
For years, 'Ash Trollies' dumped coal ash in North Philadelphia. Now the community is feeling the impact.
"They hauled it in bulging trolley cars. They hauled it in wagons. They brought it up to North Philadelphia with the full blessing of the city.The unstable ash that has undermined entire blocks of homes along Roosevelt Boulevard was largely dumped there by politically connected companies working under a lucrative city contract."
Full Story:
How all that coal ash got dumped on the city
Source:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 2000
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