The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday the final adoption of rules aimed at significantly reducing fossil fuel power plant pollution across the country. Several clean energy nonprofits hailed the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic announcement as a powerful federal law that will reduce health risks associated with toxic metals disposed of in coal ash ponds […] The post Georgia Power plan to leave coal ash in groundwater could be upended by new EPA rule appeared first
Kentucky is one of a minority of states that produces most of its electricity by burning coal. A byproduct of that legacy today: creating millions of tons of what’s known as coal ash, a waste from burning coal containing a slew of toxic metals that’s often stored by utilities and power producers in impoundment ponds […] The post New federal rules aim to clean up toxic coal ash, including nearly a dozen sites in Kentucky appeared first on Kentucky Lantern.
Twelve nations (including the United States, China, India, Indonesia, and France) have formed the “Climate Overshoot Commission” to review concepts for how to cool our planet if, by year 2050,
China accounted for two-thirds of the coal-burning power capacity that came online last year, according to Global Energy Monitor, which ‘starkly contrasts with the global trend, putting China’s 2025 climate targets at risk’.