Coal-fired power plants may affect your drinking water

VanBriesen plans to continue this work with an even broader assessment of the costs and benefits of the different choices that are made at power plants. “We would like to understand how the choices to control air pollutants, and thus, reduce air quality-associated risk, affect the changes in risk from the bromide discharges. Balancing the benefits and the risks is something we always want to consider when we control environmental pollutants,” said VanBriesen. “That’s the next piece.”