Officials are worried about drinking water safety and the lack of emergency readiness at the former Walter C. Beckjord power ...

Coal ash is more hazardous than previously thought, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The health risks of exposure may complicate cleanup plans at more than 70 structural fill sites ...

Test results of the soil near a Mooresville day care confirm what experts feared: what they call "unacceptable levels" of carcinogens and radioactivity in the coal ash placed there decades ago as fill ...

BUCKS, Ala.—Alabama’s largest electric utility reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency resolving two of three alleged violations stemming from one of its largest coal ash ...

Coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal to generate power that contains an alphabet soup of toxic contaminants, has been used for decades in Indiana and across the U.S. as construction fill. Here's what ...

Dozens of well owners near coal ash ponds across North Carolina will have to wait longer to learn whether their drinking water contains a cancer-causing compound primarily found in industrial waste.

You can read the full EPA draft risk assessment report that address more than just structural fill (82 pages) or excerpts that are specific to that use (10 pages). We’ve annotated the second document ...

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct dates when coal ash was produced in Unit 5 of the power plant and the process by which Xcel Energy stored the ash in impoundments ...

BISMARCK -- Al Christianson feels like his company dodged a bullet, but the gun might still be loaded. Christianson heads up byproduct development for Great River Energy, which operates coal-fired ...

[Sparton Resources, 16 January] Sparton Resources Inc of Canada has signed an agreement with the Xiaolongtang Guodian Power Co, a subsidiary of China Guodian Group, for a program to test and possibly ...