If the EPA's proposal is finalized, utilities in Alabama may be forced to excavate and remove millions of tons of potentially dangerous wet coal ash slurry from unlined ponds alongside rivers in Alabama.
. However, the agency said Alabama’s coal ash plan was “significantly less protective of people and waterways than the federal regulations require.”
The EPA said that facilities like power plants will have to meet federal standards, not state ones, if the proposed rejection is finalized. For decades, coal-fired power plants around the country disposed of coal ash by using water to flush it into unlined ponds near the plant, which were usually located along rivers. The heavier ash particles settled to the bottom and the water was allowed to overflow the pond into a river or other body of water.
The EPA’s rejection of Alabama coal ash rules marks the third time this year that the Biden Administration has attempted to force Alabama to bolster its environmental protections.to meet cross-state air pollution rules because of ground-level ozone readings in Texas.
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