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This article is well written and has reliable sources. The content is informative. As a suggestions, information about older ash ponds and them leaking coal ash could be added. Also, information about alternative to coal ash waste such as recycling could be added to minimize health effects in humans. Below is a link that might be useful (https://www.epa.gov/coalash/coal-ash-reuse).Millebg (talk) 00:31, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This article does not present in a balanced way the potential health effects of coal ash, on the basis of reliable information. Especially one section strays from the scope of the article and is misleading. This is the section entitled "health effects of toxic constituents found in coal ash" which presents health effects of toxic elements present in coal ash, each one separately, under the assumption that they will affect health in the same way as if they were "pure elements". This is a wrong assumption, as in the case of coal ash they are "embedded" in the glassy particles, so that the health effects of the "pure elements" are not actually observed. For more details on this subject please refer for example to a paper published by P.J. Borm [Borm, P.J. (1997). Toxicity and occupational health hazards of coal fly ash (CFA). A review of data and comparison to coal mine dust. Ann. Occup. Health 41: 659–676]. In addition the papers which are the most cited in this section were published in "Physicians for Social Responsability", a journal which cannot be considered as a reliable source in the field of occupational health.Saba50 (talk) 12:29, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t think so. Even if "embedded" in the glassy particles (I suppose you mean when reused?), toxic constituents can still be released in many ways, e.g. during cement mixing and production, during the cutting, drilling of the resulting concrete, etc. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 14:44, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

E.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389414005512 --Dustfreeworld (talk) 14:46, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]