Articles Tagged with ''coal ash''

Power provider says new mandate will cost $5B more at sites previously deemed low risk; legislators also move to classify them as high-risk.

Bowing to industry’s push, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now proposes changes in Obama-era federal rules for power plant coal-ash disposal enacted in 2015 after several major spills, aiming to let states provide local oversight and enforcement. 

The Tennessee Valley Authority expects it will cost about $2 billion to excavate leaking coal-ash storage ponds at its Cumberland River power plant, near Nashville.