Companies and regulators are not doing enough to protect water quality in and around Ottumwa, writes Connie Hammersley-Wilson ...

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 ...

Indiana has recently experienced record-setting rains, causing disastrous flooding in some areas of the state. Our state also has historically relied on coal as an energy source. You might be asking: ...

Minnesota Power now estimates that some 5.5 million gallons of water, siphoned off the top of a disposal site for coal ash, spilled through a cracked pipe outside its coal plant. When the Duluth-based ...

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The approval is the latest sign of the agency blazing forward with Trump administration priorities during the government ...

Sutton Lake, a popular fishing and boating area in New Hanover County, has as much or more coal ash contamination at its bottom than was found in the Dan River, site of a 2014 coal ash spill, Duke ...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to expand its federal coal ash rule to apply to hundreds of previously exempted disposal sites, increasing protections for local communities living near coal ...

The state is allowing AES Indiana to dump more than 1 million gallons of water contaminated with harmful coal ash pollutants directly into the White River every day, according to Indiana environmental ...

Companies will have another year to submit reports on their coal ash dump sites and 15 more months to install groundwater monitoring systems. EPA has agreed to extend two deadlines for complying with ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first steps toward revoking Alabama’s coal ash permitting plan, saying the state’s plan does not do enough to protect rivers and drinking water ...