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Gavin Kearney, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Companies were free to store coal ash anywhere they wanted to, and oftentimes that just meant digging a hole in the ground and dumping it in.”

The rule comes just days before a deadline for owners to report on previously unregulated coal ash dumping at power plant sites

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at 26 power plant sites in Illinois.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 26 current and former power plant sites in Pennsylvania.

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at 24 current and former power plants sites in Indiana.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 28 current and former power plant sites in Ohio, more locations than any other state.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 19 coal-burning power plant sites in Texas.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 19 power plant sites in Iowa.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 21 coal-fired power plant sites in Missouri.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 14 coal-fired power plant sites in Wisconsin.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at six power plant sites in Wyoming.

Trump’s EPA proposal would allow EPA to grant 11 coal power plants extensions to continue dumping toxic coal ash in unlined ponds until October 17, 2031

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 16 coal-fired power plant sites in West Virginia.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 coal-fired power plant sites in Florida.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 18 coal-fired power plant sites in Michigan.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 17 power plant sites in North Carolina.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 power plant sites in Colorado.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 coal-fired power plant sites in Minnesota.