Companies and regulators are not doing enough to protect water quality in and around Ottumwa, writes Connie Hammersley-Wilson.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a rule to allow some coal plants to continue operating and using unlined ...

Duke Energy and other utilities sent EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin a letter asking the agency to roll back pollution regulations despite pending litigation. The letter addresses two sets of rules. One ...

A recent pact between North Dakota and the Trump administration shows how coal-friendly states could enshrine lax standards and block future federal enforcement on toxic coal ash pollution. North ...

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon readers – we are halfway through the week! Up on Capitol Hill, the Environmental Protection Agency has been awarded a big win from the Supreme Court over the ...

In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys' football stadium twice over — threaten ...

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 ...

In this undated file photo, steam and pollution rise on a cold day at the Arapaho Station Coal Power Plant, a coal fired power plant along the Platte River in Littleton, just outside Denver, Colorado.

Water pollution from a coal ash landfill and settling ponds at a closed power plant in Chesapeake is not a violation of the federal Clean Water Act or the conditions of a state permit to enforce the ...

North Carolina environmental officials said Tuesday that they are fining Duke Energy $25 million over pollution that has been seeping into groundwater for years from a pair of coal ash pits at a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. I am disappointed in the Post-Dispatch's coverage of Ameren's misleading report on coal ash pollution. As a coal ash disaster ...