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

We’ve been up and down this creek before. My AL.com colleague Margaret Kates is on it. Here are some excerpts from her reporting:

“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

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