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The lawsuit contends that the agency's current regulations aren't strong enough, and seeks to force them to revise how coal ash is monitored and regulated.

The lawsuit contends that the agency's current regulations aren't strong enough, and seeks to force them to revise how coal ash is monitored and regulated.

A coalition of environmental groups is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its refusal to regulate some older coal ash dumps

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A coalition of environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday over its refusal to regulate some older

The lawsuit contends that the agency's current regulations aren't strong enough, and seeks to force them to revise how coal ash is monitored and regulated.

Casey Ridenour and Charles Kennedy strategized every detail of their escape from the Fentress County jail. It all went out the window as soon as they started to run.

Casey Ridenour and Charles Kennedy strategized every detail of their escape from the Fentress County jail. It all went out the window as soon as they started to run.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on groundwater pollution from the James M. Gavin power plant in Cheshire, which some say could mean the beginning of the end for Ohio’s largest coal-fired facility.

With a river on three sides and an earthen dam vulnerable to hurricanes on the fourth side, an Alabama coal-fired power plant risks a toxic coal ash spill.

Other workers have died, felled by cancers developed after toiling in the ash fields, plaintiffs allege. The spill happened on a bitter Monday night, Dec. 22, 2008. A holding cell loaded with liquid coal ash at the steam plant failed, spilling the liquid into rivers and destroying Swan Pond neighborhood homes and properties. Jacobs says it took adequate steps on behalf of the hundreds of people it hired to rid the countryside around the Kingston steam plant of acres of ash. TVA operates the pla...