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 ...

Have you heard about the cobra effect? During the colonial era, Delhi had a major cobra issue. The then-British government announced a bounty for dead cobras to reduce the number of snakes on the ...

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 ...

Experts say the use of coal fly ash in concrete mixes and land infill is a safe practice ? as long as it?s done right. “We believe that when you stabilize the material, it?s a wonderful thing to use,” ...

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 ...

On one hand, with the retirement of coal-fired power plants the supply of fly ash has decreased. Fly ash is one of the most popular supplemental cementitious materials (SCM) in the industry, so it’s ...

Of all the elements that make up the Earth’s crust, uranium is reasonably abundant, coming in at 49th place, ahead of elements such as tin, tungsten and silver. Ever since humankind began to exploit ...

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 ...

In Juliette, Georgia radioactive water flows from the tap. In Pennsylvania, three adjoining counties battle a rare form of cancer. One thing these communities have in common is their exposure coal ash ...