Omar Alfonso | La Perla del Sur y Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

While in Dominican Republic there is a debate over the number of people who must be compensated after breathing and swallowing — for years — AES coal ashes that reached Arroyo Barril, in Puerto Rico the government is presenting a regulation that perpetuates the toxic waste on the island.

At the request of carbon-powered AES Puerto Rico and Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (USWAG), the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Andrew Wheeler, authorized states and territories to suspend groundwater monitoring carried out in landfills and ash ponds, and ordered that the permitted levels of lead, cobalt, lithium and molybdenum be raised […]