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A glaring loophole already had allowed at least a half-billion tons of the waste to go unregulated. Now the agency says many of the facilities that are subject to the rules do not comply.
The action was prompted by a lawsuit seeking to close a glaring loophole that had left many of the nation’s mountains of coal ash without federal regulations, but the agency would still exempt some disposal sites.
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"Not only is it illegal but it's dangerous," Lisa Evans, an environmental attorney, said about the practice, which could imperil groundwater and drinking