Enough coal ash slurry to fill 800 Olympic swimming pools swallowed a town in 2008, carrying toxins, sickness and bitter ...

In 2014, 39,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of coal ash pond water spilled into the Dan River in Eden, North Carolina, due to a burst pipe at a Duke Energy coal plant (Figure 1).

EPA finally takes on abandoned coal ash ponds — but it might be too late Will utilities clean up toxic waste at power plants, or run out an election-year clock?

When Xcel Energy stopped burning coal at its Valmont Power Station in 2017, it left 1.6 million tons of toxic coal ash on the ...

EPA officials explained the process for regulating coal ash ponds and their closure to more than 150 people at a community meeting Tuesday at the College of Lake County’s Lakeshore Campus in ...

One ash pond at other large ponds include Plant Gaston in Shelby County, and Plants Miller and Gorgas, both in Jefferson County, each containing about 25 million cubic yards of coal ash.

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) ...

Explore the dangers of coal ash and its impact on health. Learn how coal ash has harmed rivers and communities in Indiana.

Coal ash ponds that are no longer being used — sometimes called "legacy ponds" — were originally exempt from Obama-era coal ash rules. That means some of them don't have caps or liners.

China has pulled back its rare earths exports, which are vital to everyday technologies and American defense. But the U.S.

What’s legal for closing Georgia’s coal ash ponds might hinge on one word: Infiltration By Grant Blankenship Georgia Public Broadcasting. April 11, 2024 3:26 PM.

At 77 acres and 1.2 million cubic yards of coal ash, the Gadsden ash pond is much smaller than some of the other massive coal ash lagoons in Alabama. The one at Plant Barry, in Mobile County, is ...