Toxic waste seeping from Ameren coal ash pond for two decades

Thursday, September 1, 2011 | 7:50 a.m. CDT; updated 9:31 a.m. CDT, Thursday, September 1, 2011

LABADIE — A coal ash pond next to an Ameren Corp. power plant in Labadie has been spilling up to 35 gallons a minute of toxic coal waste for two decades, raising concerns in the eastern Missouri town.

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