A five-story coal ash pile next to the AES electric power plant in Guayama, Puerto Rico. Crédito: Hilda Llorens, Author provided For scholars like me who study environmental justice, it has been ...

Scientists analyzed coal ash from power plants across the United States and found it could contain up to 11 million tons of rare earth elements — nearly eight times the amount the US has in ...

Under the settlement, Rotary Drilling must place a cap over the ash piles to prevent runoff ... from solid waste laws to use coal waste from its power plants as structural fill, for road base ...

WASHINGTON, N.J., Nov. 30. -- A heap of powdered bituminous coal containing not less than 100 tons is on fire in one of the largest buildings of the plant of the Edison Cement Company at New Village.