Articles Tagged with ''coal ash''

Agency finalizes streamlined New Source Review process for project adds to air emissions and coal ash storage mandates for power plants in site specific cases, despite environmental group concerns.

Under a new settlement with state regulators, communities and environmental groups, Duke Energy will spend $3.5 billion to close its last nine coal-ash storage impoundments in North Carolina, bringing the company’s cost of closing all of its coal-ash sites in North and South Carolina to between $8 billion and $9 billion.

Consolidation and management of coal-ash is dirty, dangerous work, and heavy equipment brought in to shift and compact the waste from coal-fired power plants can pose a hazard for workers.

Power provider says new mandate will cost $5B more at sites previously deemed low risk; legislators also move to classify them as high-risk.