The Latest On: Coal Ash
January 18, 2022
| Press Release
U.S. Court of Appeals Hears Arguments on the Legality of Oklahoma’s Coal Ash Program
January 11, 2022
| In the News: CNN
EPA begins enforcement on clean up of toxic coal-ash ponds
Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Coal Program, Earthjustice: “Enforcement of the rule's provisions is desperately needed, as coal plants have demonstrated they don't care about polluting water or putting people's health at risk, and they have taken full advantage of the Trump EPA's hands-off policy. The result is nationwide pollution of water at coal plants.”
January 11, 2022
| In the News: The Hill
EPA takes steps toward addressing toxic coal residue
Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Coal Program, Earthjustice: “EPA, has not, to date, since the rule was promulgated in 2015, enforced the rule. It’s stunning that there have been no enforcement actions when in fact there is widespread, substantial noncompliance.”
January 11, 2022
| Press Release
Biden Administration Announces Crackdown on Coal Power Plants’ Contamination of Water
December 5, 2021
| In the News: CNN
Gambling ‘America’s Amazon’
Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Coal Program, Earthjustice: “You can’t see coal ash contaminating underlying groundwater … you can’t see the slow pollution of the adjacent river and the dying of the fish.”