On January 15, a group of utility companies wrote a letter to Lee Zeldin, then president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. “We provide the electricity for ...

The federal government plans to investigate a Chapel Hill coal ash burial site poised for redevelopment after new studies raised more concerns about the potential risk to human health. The U.S.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted the Center for Biological Diversity’s petition requesting that the agency investigate whether the town of Chapel Hill’s coal ash ...

A former coal ash disposal site in West Virginia is the site of a huge solar farm being constructed to boost the state's clean energy output. The Marlowe solar installation will produce up to 5.75 ...

Companies will have another year to submit reports on their coal ash dump sites and 15 more months to install groundwater monitoring systems. EPA has agreed to extend two deadlines for complying with ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by Florence’s ...

In the wake of a Feb. 2 coal ash spill near Eden, North Carolina, another town in the state is re-examining the possible effects of living near a coal ash dump. Residents living in some 150 homes near ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina regulators issued notice to Duke Energy on Friday that the company will be cited for violating environmental standards in connection with a massive coal ash spill that ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Perry County resident Esther Calhoun says her rural area has been ruined by tons of coal ash that have been dumped in a sprawling landfill near Uniontown. Calhoun was in Montgomery ...