“Utilities have gamed the system at some plants by designing monitoring systems that intentionally miss detecting leakage from a coal ash dump,” she said, citing a 2022 report by Earthjustice ...

Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide.

Environmentalists: Water draining from beneath a lined landfill containing coal ash is nevertheless contaminated and threatens the Des Moines River ...

The threatened lawsuit deals with the Ottumwa Midland Landfill, a coal ash dump that has been used by Interstate Power and Light Co., a subsidiary of Alliant Energy, since 1995. A hawk sits on top ...

The Biden-era regulation, which took effect in May 2024, essentially requires owners of inactive coal ash disposal sites to follow the same clean-up rules as active dump sites, closing a loophole ...

Before then, attorneys argue, the standard practice in Indiana was to mix the coal ash with water and dump it into “large, unlined surface impoundments” or ponds. According to a 2015 EPA study ...

The information also may be complex — like Chapel Hill’s years-long discussion about its coal ash dump or the Legion Road park and affordable housing site — or the system hosting the website ...

Roughly three quarters of Baltimore’s waterfront is hardened with bulkheads, piers and brick promenades, severely limiting ...