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The EPA first regulated how coal ash should be stored in 2015, though the rule applied only to waste produced after the rule came into effect. In a new rule released April 25, the agency expanded ...
A coal-fired power plant with ash ponds. Coal ash, also known as coal combustion residuals (CCRs), is the mineral residue that remains from burning coal. Exposure to coal ash and to the toxic substances it contains may pose a health risk to workers in coal-fired power plants and residents living near coal ash disposal sites.
Harmful byproduct of burning coal for power has been used as construction fill for decades, but no one kept track of where it went. EPA: Cancer risk from coal ash higher than previously revealed ...
Photomicrograph made with a scanning electron microscope and back-scatter detector: cross section of fly ash particles. Fly ash, flue ash, coal ash, or pulverised fuel ash (in the UK)—plurale tantum: coal combustion residuals (CCRs)—is a coal combustion product that is composed of the particulates that are driven out of coal-fired boilers together with the flue gases.
The EPA also tightened rules aimed at reducing wastewater pollution from coal-fired power plants and preventing harm from toxic pits of coal ash, a waste byproduct of burning coal. Coal ash ...
Some critics of the EPA's response claim that the choice of how to deal with the spilled coal ash was an act of environmental racism. [77] [78] [79] Roane County's population is more than 94% White, and the EPA shipped the toxic coal ash 300 miles (480 km) south to Uniontown, Alabama, which has a population that is more than 90% African American.
In one document, the EPA shared a table describing how coal ash at some monitoring wells was found to be sometimes a dozen feet deep in the water flowing through the Northwest Georgia topography.
On January 11, 2022 EPA announced an enforcement action involving ash ponds at certain coal-fired plants in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and New York. The agency's proposal would deny the plants' requests for extensions beyond the 2021 deadline and would require them to close their ash ponds ahead of their proposed schedules.