Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia Power will turn millions more tons of coal ash into concrete

As Georgia Power winds down its reliance on coal to generate electricity, it has found that the ash left behind by decades of combustion can be used in one of the most highly sought building materials ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia Power says it will turn more of its toxic coal ash into concrete

Georgia Power has millions of tons of toxic coal ash stored at sites around the state, the result of decades of burning coal at its power plants. Now, more of that material is set to be used to build ...
EurekAlert!

Green concrete recycling twice the coal ash is built to last

The RMIT team: (l-r)) Dr Yuguo Yu, Professor Sujeeva Setunge, Dr Dilan Robert, Dr Chamila Gunasekara, Dr David Law. New modelling reveals that low-carbon concrete developed at RMIT University can ...
Charlotte Observer

Recycling centers emerge as one way to manage coal ash around the Charlotte area

If you’ve flown out of Asheville Regional Airport or driven on some of North Carolina’s interstates, chances are you’ve been on material made with recycled coal ash from Duke Energy. With a staggering ...
Power Engineering

Georgia Power launches coal ash use project at Plant Bowen

Millions of tons of stored coal ash would be collected from Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen under a new project involving the utility and Eco Material Technologies. The coal ash would be used in concrete ...
Knoxville News Sentinel

Coal ash could be reused anywhere. Here's how government does - and doesn't - regulate it

Reused coal ash could be anywhere: an East Tennessee playground, ballfields in Ohio, a golf club in Virginia, a church in North Carolina, even all over a town in Indiana. Coal ash is the concentrated ...
Daily Camera

Xcel: Remediating coal ash at Boulder’s Valmont Power Station to start next year

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct dates when coal ash was produced in Unit 5 of the power plant and the process by which Xcel Energy stored the ash in impoundments ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Concrete reasons not to fear coal ash landfills

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A few years back, I was giving a tour of one of Ameren’s energy centers. A visitor was interested in seeing the facility’s coal ...
The Post-Journal

Coal Ash Project For Pomfret Gets Boost

Pictured is 5485 West Lake Road, in the town of Pomfret. This is the area where a coal ash recycling plant is proposed to be constructed. P-J photo The New York Power Authority board has approved a ...
E&E

Michael Regan’s coal ash cleanups set template for EPA regs

In February 2014, a lagoon holding a slurry of heavy metal-laden coal ash at Duke Energy Corp.’s shuttered Dan River power plant in North Carolina was breached. In February 2014, a lagoon holding a ...
The Indianapolis Star

Potentially harmful coal ash could be buried in your town. Here's what you need to know.

Coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal to generate power that contains an alphabet soup of toxic contaminants, has been used for decades in Indiana and across the U.S. as construction fill. Here's what ...