The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, denying requests by three Midwest power plants to extend operations of leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash storage ponds. Plants in Indiana, …
The Trump administration will let some leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash storage ponds stay in operation for years more and some unlined ponds stay open indefinitely under a rule change announced last Friday. The move by the Environmental Protection …
The Tennessee Valley Authority says it is installing 24 more monitoring wells at a coal-fired power plant where high levels of arsenic and lead were found in groundwater. A TVA statement Aug. 24 said it continues to investigate how the …
Duke Energy Corp. must clean up its coal-ash ponds in North Carolina by 2024 due to environmental and public health safety risks, state regulators said in a proposal that could be scaled back at a later date. Duke must dig …
