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The New Madrid coal plant in Missouri in 2009. (Larry Braun / CC BY-ND 2.0)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Missouri: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The J. P. Pulliam Generating Station on Fox River in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 2017. (James G Brey / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Wisconsin: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

FirstEnergy's Little Blue Run coal ash impoundment, built in 1975 and containing coal ash from the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, is the largest unlined coal ash pond in the United States, spanning Pennsylvania and West Virginia. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature September 2, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Pennsylvania: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

Cooling tower at the Michigan City Generating Station, Michigan City, Indiana. (Just Transition NWI)
feature September 2, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Indiana: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

A South Texas rancher looks out over his family’s land that has been contaminated by pollutants from the San Miguel Electric Plant, in the background. (Ari Phillips / EIP)
feature September 3, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Texas: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The former Crist Power Plant near Pensacola, Florida, in 2022. (Art Wager / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Florida: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

Former coal ash ponds at Grainger Generating Station, Conway, S.C. Coal ash contaminated the groundwater in the area with heavy metals and toxins. (Anthony Brown / Permission from Southern Environmental Law Center)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in South Carolina: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

Dominion Virginia Power's coal ash pond at Possum Point, Virginia. (Potomac Riverkeepers)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Virginia: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

Volunteers collect water samples, as miles of the Dan River in North Carolina were contaminated with toxic coal ash after the collapse of a coal ash impoundment at Duke Energy's Dan River Steam Station in 2014. (Appalachian Voices)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in North Carolina: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The Riverside (MN) power station on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minn., in 2011. (Kubrak78 / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Minnesota: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio, looms over neighboring homes in 2002. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)
feature September 2, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Ohio: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The Fort Martin coal-fired power station near Morgantown in West Virginia, in 2020. (Getty Images)
feature September 3, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in West Virginia: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The Evergy-owned La Cygne Generating Station in Kansas. (Michael Siluk / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Kansas: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The North Fly Ash Pond at the Hugo Power Station in Choctaw, Okla., in 2011. (EPA)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Oklahoma: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The R.S. Nelson coal fired-power plant in 2004, in Westlake, La. (Jamie Gates / AP Photo / American Press)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Louisiana: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The Gerald Gentleman Power Station is located south of Southerland, Neb. (Ryan McGinnis / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Nebraska: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at seven power plant sites in Nebraska.

The George Neal North Plant in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. (Map data ©2023 Imagery ©2023 , CNES / Airbus, Landsat / Copernicus, Maxar Technologies, USDA/FPAC/GEO)
feature September 2, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Iowa: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

Coal ash ponds next to now-retired Reid Gardner coal plant near Moapa, NV, in 2011. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Nevada: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at four power plant sites in Nevada.