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

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

Coal ash has long been used as filler material in residential areas, schools, highways, bridges and various infrastructure projects. The Environmental Protection Agency now says coal ash fill may ...

Coal Creek Station recycles 99.5% of its fly ash for cement replacement and uses about 8 million tons per year of beneficiated lignite coal.

Coal ash was used in the construction of various local projects, such as the Gautrain, the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project and the FNB Stadium, all in Gauteng, the Coega Industrial Development ...

A recent EPA report shows coal ash could increase a person’s cancer risk significantly more than previously thought. That is raising concerns about more than 70 sites across the state where at ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Legislation allowing for the use of coal ash and other industrial byproducts in cement and asphalt is close to reaching Gov. Rick Snyder. The Republican-led Senate finished ...