10 minutes | Dec 12, 2021

Sunday Edition: Gambling ‘America’s Amazon’

In 2008, a coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee blanketed hundreds of acres in toxic sludge, causing more than $1 billion in damage. Now, a CNN investigation found that an even larger coal ash pond in Alabama is already seeping into the groundwater, threatening an ecosystem some environmentalists call ‘America’s Amazon.’

Guest: Isabelle Chapman, CNN Investigates reporter

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