David Bronner, CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, called on state leaders to address the massive coal ash pond that sits along the Mobile River, calling it a “huge environmental bomb.”

“We do not need finger-pointing; we need to, jointly, with Alabama Power, our Washington team, and our state team, unite and start the long process to solve this huge environmental bomb NOW, NOT IGNORE IT until Mother Nature decides to let it bust loose and damage Mobile Bay, affecting not just Mobile Bay but the entire state,” Bronner wrote in this month’s Advisor, a newsletter sent to RSA members .

The coal ash pond at Barry Electric Generating Plant , about 25 miles north of Mobile, contains around 22 million cubic yards of coal combustion residuals - what’s left after coal is burned for en

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