Test results of the soil near a Mooresville day care confirm what experts feared: what they call "unacceptable levels" of carcinogens and radioactivity in the coal ash placed there decades ago as fill ...

Dozens of well owners near coal ash ponds across North Carolina will have to wait longer to learn whether their drinking water contains a cancer-causing compound primarily found in industrial waste.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's environmental agency has ordered Duke Energy to install monitoring wells in a residential neighborhood outside Asheville to determine whether toxic chemicals ...

This exposed coal ash is on a steep slope that leads to the Bolin Creek greenway in Chapel Hill. Although fencing has been installed to capture any runoff and prevent people from accessing the ash, ...

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 ...

BISMARCK -- Al Christianson feels like his company dodged a bullet, but the gun might still be loaded. Christianson heads up byproduct development for Great River Energy, which operates coal-fired ...

Coal and ash handling presents many problems, but cost-saving and revenue generation opportunties are available to aggressive asset owners. A necessary evil. That is the term often applied to coal and ...

[Sparton Resources, 16 January] Sparton Resources Inc of Canada has signed an agreement with the Xiaolongtang Guodian Power Co, a subsidiary of China Guodian Group, for a program to test and possibly ...

You can read the full EPA draft risk assessment report that address more than just structural fill (82 pages) or excerpts that are specific to that use (10 pages). We’ve annotated the second document ...