For decades, the coal ash impoundment has contaminated the Coosa River and Neely Henry Lake, the lawsuit states, as the heavy ...

Coosa Riverkeeper filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Alabama Power, alleging significant groundwater pollution violations from ...

“Coal ash is the powdery residue left over after burning coal,” Hancock says. “ Ash has been used in the garden as a fertilizer or soil amendment because it contains key nutrients needed for ...

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 ...

The Trump administration just dealt another blow to U.S. environmental regulations — one that could allow more contamination ...

Widows Creek Fossil Plant, in the northeast corner of Alabama near Georgia, closed in 2015. There are four legacy coal ash ...

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

Nationwide, the American Coal Ash Association estimates that a total of 180 million tons of the material have been used in fill projects throughout the U.S. since 1980.

The Biden administration put out rules last year to help control toxic coal ash in old, unused ponds that hadn’t had federal oversight before. But an analysis by the group Earthjustice shows some ...

The EPA now recognizes the risks of gamma radiation from radium in coal ash, but many states aren’t even sure where the toxic waste has been used. In Alabama, environmental regulators say they ...

US company uses materials like fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, to partly replace cement in the construction sector ...