On the morning of May 18, 1980, the most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history killed 57 people in Washington state. The enormous column of ash that was unleashed by Mount St. Helens has been ...

You should be able to find answers to these questions in publicly available documents published by Duke Energy and available on the energy giant's website. At least, that's according to the federal ...

The utility industry is trying to roll back coal ash regulation passed after the 2008 Kingston disaster, and the EPA is listening. Even if you don’t live next to a coal plant, this could affect you.

ALTON, Illinois — Where the Wood and Mississippi rivers meet in southern Illinois, over a million cubic yards of toxic coal ash sit on the edge of Illinois’ floodplain, threatening the waterways that ...

In the two years since theTennessee coal ash disaster , the largest industrial spill in U.S. history, the state has failed to beef up laws to handle toxic waste from its coal-fired power plants, ...