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Earthjustice y nuestros socios trabajan para proteger la salud infantil. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
Press Release September 9, 2025

Informe de la Comisión MAHA de Trump Expone a Niños a Sustancias Tóxicas

A pesar de que afirma promover la salud, la administración Trump elimina protecciones contra sustancias químicas tóxicas en alimentos y agua

Earthjustice and our partners are working to protect children's health. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
Press Release September 9, 2025

Trump’s MAHA Commission Report Offers No Solutions, Leaves Kids Exposed to Toxics

While claiming to promote health, the Trump administration removes protections from toxic chemicals in food and water

Sockeye salmon make their way back up a river in the Pacific Northwest to spawn.(Shutterstock)
From the Experts September 4, 2025

Wins and Highlights from the Washington 2025 Legislative Session

Let’s celebrate this year’s environmental victories, plan to continue our work in the Columbia Basin — and prepare for next year!

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 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 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.

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 Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in 2010. (Nancy Nehring / Getty Images)
feature September 3, 2025

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 Four Corners coal-fired power plant near Shiprock, New Mexico, in 2017. (Buddy Mays / Getty Images)
feature September 3, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in New Mexico: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

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

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)
feature September 3, 2025

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)
feature September 3, 2025

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)
feature September 3, 2025

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)
feature September 3, 2025

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)
feature September 3, 2025

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)
feature September 3, 2025

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.