As Georgia Power winds down its reliance on coal to generate electricity, it has found that the ash left behind by decades of combustion can be used in one of the most highly sought building materials ...

Georgia Power has millions of tons of toxic coal ash stored at sites around the state, the result of decades of burning coal at its power plants. Now, more of that material is set to be used to build ...

The RMIT team: (l-r)) Dr Yuguo Yu, Professor Sujeeva Setunge, Dr Dilan Robert, Dr Chamila Gunasekara, Dr David Law. New modelling reveals that low-carbon concrete developed at RMIT University can ...

If you’ve flown out of Asheville Regional Airport or driven on some of North Carolina’s interstates, chances are you’ve been on material made with recycled coal ash from Duke Energy. With a staggering ...

Millions of tons of stored coal ash would be collected from Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen under a new project involving the utility and Eco Material Technologies. The coal ash would be used in concrete ...

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 ...

Pictured is 5485 West Lake Road, in the town of Pomfret. This is the area where a coal ash recycling plant is proposed to be constructed. P-J photo The New York Power Authority board has approved a ...

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 ...

Concrete is the world's most manufactured item, with more than 25 billion tons used in construction each year. It's also ...

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 ...