Plant to Process, Market PPL’s Fly Ash (RedNova)

By David DeKok, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Aug. 8–Thanks to the government’s long push to control air pollution, a Massachusetts company is building a facility at PPL Electric’s Brunner Island power plant in York County to process fly ash for the concrete industry.

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