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Smokestacks release plumes into the air.

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The legal battle over toxic waste disposal in southeast Ohio

Erin Gottsacker

The James M. Gavin Power Plant in southeast Ohio sued the EPA in 2024, arguing the agency improperly applied rules to one of its waste storage units. A judge dismissed the lawsuit.

The Kyger Creek Station along the Ohio River in Cheshire is one of two coal-fired power plants that belong to the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation. The other, Clifty Creek Station, is in Madison, Ind.

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Coal companies want a relaxation of coal ash standards. The EPA may give it to them.

Renee Fox

Coal companies want a relaxation of coal ash standards, and wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency to request one. Lee Zeldin, the head of the EPA, may give it to them. Opponents say the move would wreak havoc on human health and water sources.

Coal ash swirls on the surface of the Dan River following one of the worst coal-ash spills in U.S. history into the river in Danville, Va., in February 2014. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to ease restrictions on coal ash and wastewater from coal plants.

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Trump Administration Proposes Relaxing Rules On Waste From Coal Plants

Reid Frazier

The Environmental Protection Agency would give coal plants more time to close unlined coal ash ponds, and ease rules on wastewater. Opponents say that prolongs the risk of toxic spills.