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BRANDYWINE, MD (WUSA9) - A 92-year old community icon is among those resisting a plan to expand a controversial coal-ash dump that has already been busted for pollution once, and still has not completed a court ordered clean up.
“They don’t care how you live, as long as they get their M-O-N-E-Y,” said Carolyn “Grandma” Gray, who has lived in Brandywine since 1943 and still volunteers at the community elementary school. “You make out the best way you can with a little bit of nothing.”
Gray and her daughter Kamita Gray are among those fighting a proposal by NRG Energy to expand a coal ash dump on North Keys Road that they believe threatens local wells and air quality. NRG is asking Prince George’s County officials for zoning permits to allow expansion.
The dump is under a 2013 court-ordered consent decree to mitigate a long history of pollution violations including the release of high levels of toxic arsenic, cadmium, copper and lead into ground water, according to Fred Tutman the Patuxent River Keeper.
Tutman questions why county officials are considering expansion of the dump when the clean-up of previous pollution has not yet been completed.
92-year-old resists more industrial dumping in brandywine
That is a civil right's violation. It's actually environmental classism.
“They don’t care how you live, as long as they get their M-O-N-E-Y,” said Carolyn “Grandma” Gray, who has lived in Brandywine since 1943 and still volunteers at the community elementary school. “You make out the best way you can with a little bit of nothing.”
Gray and her daughter Kamita Gray are among those fighting a proposal by NRG Energy to expand a coal ash dump on North Keys Road that they believe threatens local wells and air quality. NRG is asking Prince George’s County officials for zoning permits to allow expansion.
The dump is under a 2013 court-ordered consent decree to mitigate a long history of pollution violations including the release of high levels of toxic arsenic, cadmium, copper and lead into ground water, according to Fred Tutman the Patuxent River Keeper.
Tutman questions why county officials are considering expansion of the dump when the clean-up of previous pollution has not yet been completed.
92-year-old resists more industrial dumping in brandywine
That is a civil right's violation. It's actually environmental classism.
