The EPA wants to give Duke Energy and others more time to cut emissions that pollute ground and surface waters with heavy ...

Across coal country, the same toxic sludge and rust-colored water that once symbolized the end of an industry is starting to ...

The plants need flexibility to meet rising electricity demand, the EPA says. Environmental groups argue that undermines Clean ...

Indiana has recently experienced record-setting rains, causing disastrous flooding in some areas of the state. Our state also has historically relied on coal as an energy source. You might be asking: ...

Minnesota Power now estimates that some 5.5 million gallons of water, siphoned off the top of a disposal site for coal ash, spilled through a cracked pipe outside its coal plant. When the Duluth-based ...

COHASSET — An estimated 1 million gallons of coal-ash wastewater spilled Tuesday at Minnesota Power's Boswell Energy Center in northcentral Minnesota, "with an unknown amount reaching Blackwater Lake, ...

LEBANON, Va. — Bill Bunch of Tazewell just wants his water kept clean. The Tazewell resident, who is running for Congress, urged the State Water Control Board Wednesday night to be cautious when ...

One million gallons of coal ash-tainted water spilled at a Minnesota Power plant after a break in an underground plastic pipe, according to a company executive. The water, which was being siphoned off ...

Water quality has been a major news headline in 2025, and much attention was paid to the cause of nitrates in central Iowa water. However, a little farther south, equally concerning water quality ...

When power plants burn coal to generate electricity, the plants leave behind toxic ash. It took decades for the Environmental Protection Agency to create and enforce regulations to keep those toxins ...

Valuable metals could be extracted out of coal ash in ponds like the ones at the Clifty Creek coal plant in Jefferson County. Gov. Mike Braun signed two executive orders Monday that focus on the state ...

COHASSET — An estimated 1 million gallons of coal-ash wastewater spilled at Minnesota Power's Boswell Energy Center, "with an unknown amount reaching Blackwater Lake," the Duluth-based power company ...