Virginia Tech scientists have developed a technology that removes water from coal slurry ponds, lowering the amount of toxic waste potentially seeping into the water table and poisoning wells. Mining ...

Warrior Met Coal in Tuscaloosa County, one of the leading producers of metallurgical coal in the United States, will pay $250,000 as part of a settlement agreement to fix a coal slurry impoundment and ...

VA Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee, site of a 1.1 billion gallon spill of coal ash slurry in 2008, photographed on March 28, 2012. Appalachian Voices, CC BY Years after the federal government ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin framed the proposal as “commonsense changes” but environmental advocates say it could permit coal plant owners to minimize, delay or avoid cleanup.

Coal-water slurry combustion represents an evolving avenue in energy research, offering a promising alternative to conventional coal combustion by utilising finely milled coal particles dispersed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WARRICK COUNTY, Ind. (WEHT) — The Warrick County Surveyor is raising concerns at the possibility of coal waste spilling in Pigeon ...

On a recent afternoon, near the headwaters of Deckers Creek, in West Virginia, Paul Ziemkiewicz, the biological scientist who directs the Water Research Institute at West Virginia University, squatted ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed scaling back federal oversight of hundreds of aging coal ash storage sites ...

WASHINGTON, DC, March 29, 2022 (ENS) – Turning coal waste from power plants into fire-resistant, strong, lightweight building materials is a project the U.S. Department of Energy is supporting, ...

Combining coal waste and sewage sludge, which are then put through a thermal process, is a viable way to reduce energy consumption and pollution. Jean Mulopo and colleagues, from the University of ...

Making batteries requires vast amounts of rare earth metals and other scarce elements, some of which are found in coal waste. A coal ash dump. Can the power grid of the future find answers to some of ...