Seventeen college students protesting for clean water were arrested in Richmond, Virginia on Monday, as a battle against the local utility’s waste disposal practices has moved to the state’s regulatory agency. The students, part of a group from the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition (VSEC), are demanding that the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) revokes permits allowing Dominion Resources to dump coal ash wastewater into local rivers. Coal ash contains toxins, including heavy metals such as arsenic.
— source thinkprogress.org