RALEIGH (WTVD) -- North Carolina lawmakers have given final approval to House Bill 630, a compromise measure that would dictate new cleanup policies for coal ash facilities in the state. Legislators ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- With a 46-0 vote North Carolina's Senate unanimously rejected the House's version of a coal ash clean-up plan, calling it too lenient. It was an expected move Monday night that ...

The Trump administration has already ordered a Michigan coal plant to run past its retirement date. Two polluting, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to revise a coal ash cleanup rule from the era of former President Joe Biden, after the agency announced last month that it’s delaying key compliance ...

The coal ash pile at the Scrubgrass Power Plant, owned by the crypto mining company Stronghold Digital Mining. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and a crypto mining company have ...

Ash waste dumps owned by Duke Energy such as the one that contaminated the Dan River and triggered a federal investigation will continue to pollute water for years even while they are subject to four ...

HARRISBURG, Pa.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued Talen Energy Corporation and Brunner Island, LLC today for failing to control toxic coal ash pollution risks from a storage impoundment at ...

The Trump administration just dealt another blow to U.S. environmental regulations — one that could allow more contamination of drinking water from toxic coal ash contamination. The Environmental ...

Asked whether customers would carry the cost of coal-ash clean-up, Paul Newton, the president of Duke's North Carolina operations, told reporters after the panel meeting in April that the question ...

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When power plants burn coal to generate electricity, the plants leave behind toxic ash. It took decades for the Environmental Protection Agency to create and enforce regulations to keep those toxins ...

Coal may be "cleaner than ever," but it's still not "clean" energy, experts say. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to expand the mining and use of coal in the U.S., calling ...