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

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at ten power plant sites in Maryland. All but one of these sites include older ash dumps that industry is only now beginning to quantify and monitor.

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at eight power plant sites in North Dakota.

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at five power plant sites in Arizona.

Significant quantities of coal ash are stored at three power plant sites in Massachusetts. All of these sites include older coal ash dumps that industry is only now beginning to quantify and monitor.

Leasing more of our public lands to coal companies and padding their bottom lines will do nothing to promote energy security or reduce costs for everyday Americans.

Use this map to understand where coal ash might be stored near you.

Decisions pending on other state requests

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

Blaine Miller-McFeeley, Senior Legislative Representative, Earthjustice: “These heavily redacted FOIA records confirm what we already know: that the Trump administration is selling off and selling out our public lands to benefit a wealthy few, and they’re doing it all behind closed doors. These action plans should be communicated to the public — we all have…

The use of toxic coal ash as a substitute for clean soil in construction and landscaping remains largely unregulated despite the risks.

This case challenges President Donald J. Trump’s unlawful Proclamation 10918 of April 17, 2025, which purports to strip core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and to open the Monument to commercial fishing.

A coalition of groups filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit from 17 states against the Trump administration for the unlawful freeze of billions for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure

Earthjustice, on behalf of the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, filed suit to properly protect rare species, including Rice’s whales and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, from being harmed or killed by fossil fuel drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.

Unpermitted massive coal ash pile growing for years near the Allegheny River will now be removed by next year, preventing contamination

The EPA’s Legacy CCR Surface Impoundment Rule extends safeguards to hundreds of coal ash dump sites that had been left unregulated

By law, before government regulations are adopted or changed, agencies must ask the public — you — to weigh in.

Coal ash is what is left behind when power plants burn coal for energy, It is a toxic mix of carcinogens, neurotoxins, and other hazardous pollutants.