Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:15:59 +0000
On Dec. 22, 2008, a major dike failure occurred on the north slopes of the ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Kingston Fossil Plant. The failure resulted in […]
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Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:00:22 +0000
Four final rules deliver on the Biden-Harris Administration’s day-one commitment to lead on climate action and to protect all communities from pollution WASHINGTON — Today, April 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a suite of final rules to reduce pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants in order to protect … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:28:19 +0000
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 25 simultaneously finalized four major environmental rules covering greenhouse gases (GHG), air toxics, wastewater discharges, and coal combustion […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:40:29 +0000
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed barring six coal-fired power plants in various states—a combined 11 GW—from disposing coal ash into unlined surface impoundments. The agency, however, also proposed to provide disposal extensions if the coal plants are needed to maintain grid reliability. The EPA’s proposed determinations, issued on Jan. 25, fall under its […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:15:35 +0000
The Biden administration has rolled out in a final what it says is a “durable” definition of “waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS), potentially capping a legal and political battle that has raged for nearly two decades. The final rule issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army on […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:54:50 +0000
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will pursue a first-of-its-kind pilot program at the Shawnee Fossil Plant in West Paducah, Kentucky, to determine if closed coal ash sites are suitable for utility-scale solar projects. The self-funded U.S. corporate agency’s board on Nov. 10 approved a $216 million pilot project to explore repurposing the 1,071-MW coal-fired power plant’s […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:47:20 +0000
Georgia Power will harvest 9 million tons of coal ash landfilled at its 3.4-GW Plant Bowen station in Bartow County, Georgia, and beneficially use it in concrete for major regional construction projects. The project, announced on June 29, will be the “ single largest beneficial use project of its kind in the U.S., and the largest […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:14:33 +0000
The post Settlement Reached in Largest U.S. Coal Ash Cleanup appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Duke Energy will save about $1.5 billion in coal ash cleanup costs under a settlement between the utility and environmental and other groups announced Jan. 2 by North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The DEQ said Duke Energy will need to excavate about 80 million tons of coal ash currently stored in basins at […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:13:04 +0000
The post EPA Overrides Subpart D in Newly Proposed Federal Coal Ash Permitting Rule appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Only “high hazard” CCR units will be subject to immediate compliance deadlines under a newly proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that revises federal permit requirements for the management of coal combustion residuals (CCRs) at power plants. If finalized, the rule will apply to all coal facilities in Indian country and the 48 U.S. states […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:45:51 +0000
The post EPA Proposes Revisions to Two Obama-Era Rules: Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Coal Ash appeared first on POWER Magazine.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued long-awaited proposed revisions of two 2015 Obama-era rules that apply to effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs) for steam electric power plants and coal combustion residuals (CCR) management by electric utilities. The agency coordinated the release of the two related revisions, which apply overwhelmingly to coal-fired steam power plants, after […]
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