StateImpact on OETA: Is the Coal Industry Polluting Oklahoma’s Water?

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  Logan Layden is a reporter and managing editor for StateImpact Oklahoma. He is a native of McAlester, Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2009. Logan spent three years as a state capitol reporter and local host of All Things Considered for NPR member station KGOU in Norman and six years as a reporter with StateImpact from 2011 to 2017. Most recently, he was news director for McAlester Radio before returning to public radio in 2020.

StateImpact’s Logan Layden sat down with OETA’s Dick Pryor for Oklahoma News Report to talk about a new study from a group of environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, that claims the coal industry is releasing toxic metals into waterways across the country.

Six of the plants are in Oklahoma. But Oklahoma Gas & Electric, which runs two of the plants on the list, says the Sierra Club is wrong — at least about OG&E.