The organizations want EPA to update its rules to better protect human health and the environment at unregulated coal ash landfills, including one in Michigan City and two in Burns
The coal ash sites – the waste is commonly buried then covered with earth – are dotted throughout the US, including at TVA s Bull Run plant in Anderson County.
The lawsuit contends that the agency's current regulations aren't strong enough, and seeks to force them to revise how coal ash is monitored and regulated.