The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it is poised to reject Alabama’s proposal to take over coal ash regulation, saying the state plan does not do enough to protect people and waterways.
Alabama Power’s coal-fired plant in Greene County. Coal ash was disposed of in ponds like the one in the foreground of this photo. The company is emptying ponds like it now. Coal ash from a TVA plant spill being loaded onto rail cars in Tennessee in 2008 for transport to an Alabama landfill in Uniontown, Alabama. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) –…
