Texas company agrees to remove coal ash dumps along the Middle Fork of the Vermilion, where toxic metals have seeped into state’s only national scenic river

Andrew Rehn of Prairie Rivers Network from Champaign looks at toxic coal ash waste seepage on the shore of the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River near the closed coal power generating plant owned by Dynegy Inc. near Collison on May 2, 2018. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)