Out of the Smokestack, Into the Landfill. AP, April 15, 2008. "[Ohio] has approved two landfills and is considering another four to bury millions of tons of ash and sludge produced at coal-fired power plants. When Ohio's coal-based power plants updated their environmental safeguards to comply with federal rules, they reduced pollution coming from smokestacks. But they also kept more pollution on the ground so, instead of billowing into the air, more of the waste is carted away from the plants in dump trucks. 'It's obviously another problem with coal,' said Sandy Buchanan, director of Ohio Citizen Action and critic of American Electric Power's plans for a new coal plant in Meigs County in southeast Ohio. 'You end up with all this ash and sludge with coal that you don't have with other kinds of power.'"
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