The Environmental Protection Agency is monitoring nine hazardous waste sites in the Carolinas in the event that Hurricane Florence unleashes toxic chemicals. The EPA regularly monitors Superfund sites ― areas where toxic waste has collected, posing health and environmental risks ― that are expected to be targeted by hurricanes in the lead-up to the storms, but toxic waste has been known to seep out of these sites due to floods and rain. The EPA announced a $115 million cleanup plan for the waste site in April. “The coal-ash sites are very vulnerable to this hurricane and any other,” Frank Holleman, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, told Bloomberg. “The risk is probably not that rain is going to fall into the pits.

Source: Huffington Post September 12, 2018 11:05 UTC