The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is revising Obama administration rules governing the disposal of coal ash, also known as coal combustion residuals (CCR), by electric utilities and ...

In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium twice over — threaten ...

North Dakota has become the fourth state so far to take charge of managing its own coal ash removal operations following the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the state’s coal combustion ...

On January 15, a group of utility companies wrote a letter to Lee Zeldin, then president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. “We provide the electricity for ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin visited the North Dakota State Capitol Wednesday to sign an agreement implementing the state’s coal ash recycling program.

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala.—At an EPA meeting in Montgomery, a cup of water took center stage. In a modest hotel a stone’s throw from the Alabama River, dozens of people shared their views on a serious threat to ...

Miller Steam Plant (Alabama Power Company) on the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in Jefferson County, Alabama. Nelson Brooke Black Warrior Riverkeeper The federal government has rejected a ...

AP Richmond reporter Sarah Rankin learned from a state lawmaker that Chinese coal ash was being imported into Virginia, despite millions of tons of ash already stored near power plants, threatening ...