Climate Change
EPA Reports “Widespread Noncompliance” With the Nation’s First Regulations on Toxic Coal Ash
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.
ORLANDO, Fla.—There is “widespread noncompliance” with the nation’s first regulations on coal ash, the toxic waste left after coal is burned for electricity, the Biden administration recently announced.
EPA Reports “Widespread Noncompliance” With the Nation’s First Regulations on Toxic Coal Ash