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EPA takes on abandoned coal ash ponds


EPA takes critical action to address coal ash pollution

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just took critical steps to protect communities and clean water from toxic coal ash pollution by ...

Cracking down on coal ash: Tough talk and tough choices

But the EPA has indicated it may require more rigorous cleanup including more coal ash removal, which could better protect water but cause costs ...

EPA takes critical action to address coal ash pollution

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division announced the draft permit for Plant Hammond's Ash Pond 3 in July 2021, the first coal ash ...

E.P.A. to Roll Back Rules to Control Toxic Ash from Coal Plants

This year, the E.P.A. proposed a number of separate amendments to the coal-ash regulations, including extending by 18 months the time that ...

EPA rule extends life of toxic coal ash ponds - The Hill

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) late Wednesday announced it had finalized a new regulation for the more than 400 coal ash pits across ...

EPA proposes rules that could require utilities to clean up 'legacy ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed requiring owners of inactive coal ash ponds, landfills and other fill sites at ...

EPA rule would force clean-up of toxic coal ash dumped in landfills ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening a rule aimed at controlling and cleaning up toxic waste from ...

EPA begins enforcement on clean up of toxic coal-ash ponds - KVIA

The EPA said 57 facilities covered by the regulations, some of which have multiple coal-ash ponds, have requested deadline extensions. It has so ...

EPA Announces Latest Actions to Protect Groundwater and ...

The Agency issued six proposed determinations to deny facilities' requests to continue disposing of coal combustion residuals (CCR or coal ash) into unlined ...

EPA letting some hazardous coal ash ponds stay open longer – San ...

... coal-fired power plants, which are taking hits financially as cheaper natural gas, solar and wind power make dirtier-burning coal plants less competitive.

EPA letting some hazardous coal ash ponds stay open longer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Trump administration will let some leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash storage ponds stay in operation for ...

Coal ash: The hidden story - Center for Public Integrity

Estimates from the EPA in 2000 were higher: 600 total landfills and ponds containing coal ash. And an unknown number of active and abandoned ...

Toxic Cleanup: How to Clean a Coal Ash Pond - Building Indiana ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered companies to stop dumping coal ash into unlined ponds and to accelerate ...

Coal Combustion Residual Surface Impoundments

CCR, or commonly referred to as coal ash, is formed when coal is burned at power plants. CCR consists of fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, flue gas or fluid bed ...

Help with keeping fly ash in retention ponds. : r/civilengineering

The retention ponds retain ash and discharge water, but also ash into another pond through about 7 12"-24" pipes, that secondary pond then has 2 ...

Communities call on EPA to strengthen coal ash rule to protect the ...

Failing to address dangerous coal ash ponds and landfills situated in floodplains where climate change has increased the risk of groundwater ...

Robert D. Bullard on X: "Grist: EPA finally takes on abandoned coal ...

Grist: EPA finally takes on abandoned coal ash ponds — but it might be too late https://t.co/Zj0ny0HanM.

EPA proposal seeks to tighten loophole that left some coal ash sites ...

Coal ash landfills or ponds that have escaped federal regulation in Wisconsin could soon be managed under a proposal by the Environmental ...

Coal Ash - Physicians for Social Responsibility

coal ash in ponds often mix coal refuse with coal ash, a practice that ... new tests take into account, the EPA itself found that the prediction of ...

New EPA Rule Targets Leaks at Inactive Coal Ash Landfills

The proposed new rule would address the over half billion tons of coal ash and the decades-old ash ponds that have escaped inspections and ...