The U.S> is seeking to boost its domestic supply of rare earths and critical minerals, and researchers are looking at the ...

Indiana has experienced record-setting rains in these first few weeks of spring, causing disastrous flooding in some areas of ...

Coal ash is the waste leftover from burning coal — which can contain toxic heavy metals like mercury, cadmium and arsenic.

That coal ash, the waste from burning coal, was at risk of leaching into groundwater and spreading toxins, officials said. It was part of a broad crackdown by the Biden administration on coal ash ...

One aims to develop a new market for Indiana’s toxic coal ash waste, while the other would further research water resources in the state. Some of the very metals that make coal ash toxic also ...

The clean coal approach also completely ignores other toxic byproducts of using coal ... And what about the byproduct of burning coal, coal ash — where will that go? Most likely to storage ...

The decades-old coal plant is expected to be retired in the next few years, and closing means dealing safely with its coal ash. Much of it has already been trucked 40 miles away for safe disposal.

In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys' football stadium twice over — threaten ...