In 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules targeting coal ash and wastewater pollution from ...

The Trump administration just dealt another blow to U.S. environmental regulations — one that could allow more contamination ...

Citing a mounting compliance crunch in America’s coal-fired power sector, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ...

Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kan., Sept. 18, 2021. ORLANDO, Fla.—There is “widespread noncompliance” with ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday proposed scaling back the requirements around storing and releasing waste from coal-fired power plants, despite also finding an increase in toxic ...

Steam rises from the Miller coal-fired power plant in Adamsville, Alabama, in 2021. New regulations from the EPA aim to cut toxic wastewater pollution from coal-fired plants.

T he Environmental Protection Agency will propose new regulations on Thursday designed to cut carbon dioxide from the nation’s coal- and natural gas-fired power plants.. The EPA’s long-awaited ...

The EPA says it will keep limits on toxic mercury emissions from coal plants but now deems them not cost-effective. Environmental groups worry the move could hinder future regulations.

“While EPA and the Obama administration have taken a modest first step by introducing some protections on the disposal of coal ash, they do not go far enough to protect families from this toxic ...

New EPA regulations could force power plants to install new technology or stop using coal and gas ... Coal companies and Republican-led states are expected to challenge the Biden version as ...

The EPA has proposed the most stringent update on limits to mercury from coal power and other industries since the Obama administration in 2012.

Exemptions to the Environmental Protection Agency's coal ash regulations allow utilities across the country to sidestep responsibility for what green groups estimate to be a half a billion tons of ...