Three unexpected environmentalists have taken on Alabama Power’s coal ash pond in a new documentary. But in their fight, the three retirees (called the “Coal Ash Grannies”) are able to find purpose ...

An ash pond at NIPSCO’s R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield is one of 86 in Indiana, the highest number of any state. (Photo courtesy of Alex Garcia/Earthjustice) To environmentalists, the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just rejected Alabama’s plan to let utilities leave millions of tons of coal ash in unlined ponds alongside rivers. The EPA, in a formal rejection released ...

Many of Indiana's coal ash ponds sit close to waterways, like these ponds at Clifty Creek coal plant in Jefferson County. Heavy rains this April flooded parts of central and southern Indiana.

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GADSDEN — Cruising upstream on the Coosa River through downtown Gadsden, it would be easy to miss the old coal ash pond sitting on the north bank of the river. It’s mostly hidden by trees and bushes, ...

Gloria Hammond’s house is the last one left on Luther Smith Road in Monroe County. Walk out the back of her house, through a patch of hardwoods and a canebrake and you come to Berry Creek. “I walked ...

As Midwest Generation seeks modification of its handling of coal ash at its decommissioned Waukegan power plant from the Illinois Pollution Control Board, it is reconsidering its earlier proposal to ...

CONWAY, S.C. (WCBD) – Santee Cooper crews say they found a breach in a former coal ash pond early Sunday morning at the former Grainer Generating Station in Conway. Officials say a dike breached and ...

Shipping containers full of coal ash from China, Poland and India have come into the U.S. through the Port of Virginia as foreign companies find a market for the same industrial waste that America's ...