(WBIR) The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that coal ash won't be classified as a "hazardous waste," but for the first time, the agency did issue new regulations on how that waste is ...

The Trump administration is proposing to extend the life of some coal plants and their controversial waste-disposal practices. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Tuesday to allow ...

Reused coal ash could be anywhere: an East Tennessee playground, ballfields in Ohio, a golf club in Virginia, a church in North Carolina, even all over a town in Indiana. Coal ash is the concentrated ...

In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium twice over — threaten ...

The waste left over from spent fossil fuel may contain a treasure trove of rare-earth elements worth billions of dollars.

(Reuters) - In a disappointment to environmentalists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued rules on Friday labeling coal ash, a byproduct of coal-based power production containing toxic ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a rule to allow some coal plants to continue operating and using unlined ...

A coal ash waste dump in Prince George’s County is among the most polluting in the nation, according to a new report from environmental groups. Two other Maryland coal ash waste dumps are cited in the ...

Washington-based National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) and the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF), based in Raleigh, North Carolina, have announced a Coal Ash Management ...

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