An ash pond at NIPSCO’s R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield is one of 86 in Indiana, the highest number of any state. (Photo courtesy of Alex Garcia/Earthjustice) To environmentalists, the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just rejected Alabama’s plan to let utilities leave millions of tons of coal ash in unlined ponds alongside rivers. The EPA, in a formal rejection released ...

Many of Indiana's coal ash ponds sit close to waterways, like these ponds at Clifty Creek coal plant in Jefferson County. Heavy rains this April flooded parts of central and southern Indiana.

Gloria Hammond’s house is the last one left on Luther Smith Road in Monroe County. Walk out the back of her house, through a patch of hardwoods and a canebrake and you come to Berry Creek. “I walked ...

CONWAY, S.C. (WCBD) – Santee Cooper crews say they found a breach in a former coal ash pond early Sunday morning at the former Grainer Generating Station in Conway. Officials say a dike breached and ...

As Midwest Generation seeks modification of its handling of coal ash at its decommissioned Waukegan power plant from the Illinois Pollution Control Board, it is reconsidering its earlier proposal to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Ameren's Meramec Energy Center looms beyond an area where a coal ash pond has been capped with a liner and soil. Though the ...

Over the weekend at an old power plant in Eden, N.C., a stormwater pipe that goes under a coal ash pond broke, sending about 82,000 tons of ash into the Dan River. The river stretches more than 200 ...

(Reuters) - In a disappointment to environmentalists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued rules on Friday labeling coal ash, a byproduct of coal-based power production containing toxic ...