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Press Release September 3, 2025

EPA Detiene Elaboración de Normas para Reducir la Contaminación del Agua de los Mataderos, Exponiendo a Millones de Estadounidenses

La decisión de la agencia permitirá que los mataderos y las plantas de procesamiento de alimentos sigan siendo los principales descargadores industriales de contaminación por nitrógeno y fósforo, aumentando el riesgo de que el agua no sea apta ni para beber ni para la recreación al aire libre, y que no sea habitable para la vida acuática.

The Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in 2010. (Nancy Nehring / Getty Images)
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Toxic Coal Ash in Wyoming: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The Navajo Generating Station, near Page, Ariz., in 2010. (Sylvia Schug / Getty Images)
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Toxic Coal Ash in Arizona: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The devastating aftermath of the coal ash spill at Kingston, TN, in 2008. One billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, covering 300 acres, destroying homes, poisoning rivers, and contaminating coves and residential drinking waters. (TVA)
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Toxic Coal Ash in Tennessee: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The Hudson Generating Station in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Map data ©2023 Imagery ©2023 , Airbus, Bluesky, CNES / Airbus, Landsat / Copernicus, Maxar Technologies, Sanborn, USDA/FPAC/GEO)
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Toxic Coal Ash in New Jersey: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Three power plants in New Jersey formerly stored toxic coal ash.

The Coal Creek coal-fired power plant near Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota, in 2012. (John Elk / Getty Images)
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Toxic Coal Ash in North Dakota: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The coal-fired Morgantown Generating Station in Newburg, Maryland, in 2014. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
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Toxic Coal Ash in Maryland: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at ten power plant sites in Maryland.

The Hunter coal-fired power plant outside Castle Dale, Utah, in 2016. (George Frey / Getty Images)
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Toxic Coal Ash in Utah: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

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 Greenidge Generating Station, along Seneca Lake in Dresden, NY, in 2022. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
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Toxic Coal Ash in New York: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

The Colstrip coal-fired power plant in Montana in 2004. (Larry Mayer / Getty Images)
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Toxic Coal Ash in Montana: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at three power plant sites in Montana.

several rows of tall, white and grey cryptomining rigs and their cooling systems at MARA Cryptomine in Granbury, Texas. The Wolf Hollow gas plant is in the background, behind the rigs
Press Release September 3, 2025

Granbury Residents Demand Answers from MARA’s Bitcoin Mine As Lawsuit Over Noise Nuisance Continues

Texas state court rejected MARA’s dismissal bid, now residents are demanding that the Cryptomine turn over documents

Press Release September 3, 2025

México Impulsa Nuevas Obras en Puerto de Veracruz que Amenazan Arrecifes y Ecosistemas Terrestres, Pese a Fallo de la Suprema Corte

El Gobierno de México anunció que en septiembre iniciará la construcción de la escollera sur del puerto de Veracruz sobre el arrecife La Gallega, con más de 3 km de extensión. Con esto se sigue incumpliendo lo ordenado por la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación

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

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.

The Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio, looms over neighboring homes in 2002. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)
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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 Ford Rouge River Plant in Dearborn, Mich., in 2009. (Aaron Lee Fineman / VWPics via Redux)
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Toxic Coal Ash in Michigan: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

Coal ash waste storage ponds sit next to the Louisville Gas and Electric’s Mill Creek Generating Station on the Ohio River. (Joseph Schneid)
feature September 2, 2025

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

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 20 coal-fired power plant sites in Kentucky.