EPA Moves to Deny Coal Ash Disposal at Six Massive Coal Power Plants 

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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A Fair Green Deal for the Last Coal Plant in Mississippi

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 22:00:28 +0000

Late in 2021, Southern Company, the giant utility headquartered in Atlanta, announced it would pursue the retirement or conversion of 15 coal-fired generation units at its power plants, totaling nearly 9,000 MW of capacity. One Southern-owned plant was conspicuously absent from those plans: the Red Hills Generating Facility, a 440 MW lignite coal-fired power station in Ackerman, […]

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Coal ban not law but ‘strong policy’

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 21:19:26 +0000

Coal ban not law but ‘strong policy’

BACOLOD CITY — A coalition of five youth groups in Negros Occidental expressed support for a decision to declare the province off limits to coal power plants and press for the passage of a measure that would give the declaration the force of law.

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