On Sunday, CNN published “Gambling ‘America’s Amazon,’” an investigation on a toxic coal ash pond in southern Alabama that experts say threatens one of the nation’s most pristine wetlands.

Environmental groups are closely watching coal ash storage ponds in North and South Carolina as rivers swollen by rain from Hurricane Florence continue to rise. Rivers swollen by Hurricane ...

WASHINGTON—Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a situation the government has long recognized as a risk to human health and the environment but has ...

(Photo courtesy of Alex Garcia/Earthjustice) To environmentalists, the scores of coal ash ponds that have sprung up around Indiana power plants over the decades are a looming threat to public ...

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Electric utilities will probably have to shut down some pools containing waste ash from coal-fired power plants ... require power companies to close ponds containing ash slurry if they are ...

Many of Indiana's coal ash ponds sit close to waterways, like these ponds at Clifty Creek coal plant in Jefferson County. Heavy rains this April flooded parts of central and southern Indiana.

This was meant to reform the widespread practice of creating so-called coal ash ponds where the toxin is stored in a wet slurry. While at that time the EPA only applied the rule to coal plants in ...

As Midwest Generation seeks modification of its handling of coal ash at its decommissioned Waukegan power plant from the Illinois Pollution Control Board, it is reconsidering its earlier proposal ...

Initially rejecting NRG’s plan to close two coal ash ponds at its Waukegan electrical generating plant adjacent to Lake Michigan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awaiting public ...