On Dec. 22, 2008, a major dike failure occurred on the north slopes of the ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s ...
Coal companies providing power for rural Kentucky residents say they will have to pay millions to comply with a Biden administration rule cleaning up old ash disposal sites.
Jared Sullivan explores how the TVA has repeatedly downplayed the dangers of coal ash to the public’s detriment.
Victor Ashe also weighs in on how Jane George ran up expenses while mounting a weak campaign against Tim Burchett. Plus, birthdays.
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 ...
Federal courts previously declined to block other power plant rules issued together by the agency this spring, including the climate rule, the mercury rule and the effluent limitations guidelines.
File photo of a coal ash lined landfill in front of Duke Energy's Roxboro coal plant in Person County on February 1, 2024.
The new Rivesville solar farm sits on around 27 acres of FirstEnergy-owned coal ash disposal landfill along Morgan Ridge Road. FirstEnergy says the site hasn’t been used since the coal-burning ...
The failure resulted in the release of approximately 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash spilling onto adjacent land and into the Emory River. The Kingston spill is considered one of the most ...