An excerpt from the Dec. 10th, 2009 Congressional hearing of The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee, “Drinking Water and Public Health Impacts of Coal Combustion Waste Disposal”

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Environmental group Greenpeace warns that China is producing toxic coal ash at an alarming rate, destroying surrounding villages and agricultural land

Shepherd Bend Mining, LLC is proposing an expansive underground coal mine, partially located on property belonging to the University of Alabama…

Environmentalists and charter fishing captains expect Lake Erie’s fish population to climb with the closing of coal-burning units at a power plant near the mouth of the lake’s biggest tributary.

Report shows elevated levels near ash basins at all 14 Duke and Progress power plants.

Patriot Coal has agreed to a major legal settlement that will require the company to clean up dozens of illegal discharges of toxic selenium at three major mining complexes in Southern West Virginia, according to court records filed Wednesday.

A federal judge says environmentalists have the legal standing to sue Monongahela Power over arsenic discharges from a coal-ash dump at its Albright power plant in West Virginia.

The Environmental Protection Agency released far-reaching air pollution regulations Wednesday, 21 years after they were first mandated by Congress and six days after they were signed by the agency.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will join public health experts, representatives from industry, and a range of other stakeholders at the Children’s Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at 2 p.m. tomorrow to make a significant Clean Air Act announcement.