The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting air, water and land pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Environmental and clean energy groups celebrated the announcement as long overdue, particularly for coal-burning power plants, which have saddled hundreds of communities across the country with dirty air and […] The post New EPA rules will force fossil fuel power plants to cut pollution appeared first on Utah News Dispatch.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday the final adoption of rules aimed at significantly reducing fossil fuel power plant pollution across the country. Several clean energy nonprofits hailed the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic announcement as a powerful federal law that will reduce health risks associated with toxic metals disposed of in coal ash ponds […] The post Georgia Power plan to leave coal ash in groundwater could be upended by new EPA rule appeared first
Kentucky is one of a minority of states that produces most of its electricity by burning coal. A byproduct of that legacy today: creating millions of tons of what’s known as coal ash, a waste from burning coal containing a slew of toxic metals that’s often stored by utilities and power producers in impoundment ponds […] The post New federal rules aim to clean up toxic coal ash, including nearly a dozen sites in Kentucky appeared first on Kentucky Lantern.
After the Environmental Protection Agency released stricter standards for existing coal power plants and new gas facilities’ carbon pollution, their wastewater, coal ash residuals, and mercury and air toxics on Thursday, a lawsuit may be on the horizon to keep the Utah’s four coal plants running past the 2032 deadline. Under the EPA’s changes, power […] The post Utah may join lawsuit against EPA coal plant rules with the help of new legislation appeared first on Utah News Dispatch.