A major victory for communities living near coal ash plants, the rule closes a loophole that left over half of coal ash exempt from federal clean-up requirements.

Thom Cmar, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The two rules are necessary and complementary to each other and point in the same direction, which is that they are contaminating groundwater, they’re contaminating the surface waters that run alongside them. Both standards work in complementary ways to set a high bar that points toward cleanup and environmental…

Earthjustice analyzed industry data to explain, state by state, how and where coal ash is disposed and which dump sites are not yet monitored or regulated.

The EPA has designated PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under CERCLA, which requires polluters to fund cleanup of contaminated sites

Use this map to understand where coal ash might be stored near you.

Coal ash is what is left behind when power plants burn coal for energy, It is a toxic mix of carcinogens, neurotoxins, and other hazardous pollutants.

Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This moves EPA forward.”

Locals aren’t letting dirty industry expand in the Gulf without a fight.

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “It may result in very few properties being cleaned up if that [natural level of arsenic] standard is set artificially high.”

Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Those rules are a regulatory Rube Goldberg machine, with numerous loopholes and many different tracks allowing companies to minimize the bonds they have to post.”

Seven years after EPA Coal Ash Rule, 96% of coal plants are not planning any treatment of contaminated groundwater

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.

By law, before government regulations are adopted or changed, agencies must ask the public — you — to weigh in.

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few years ago. The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.”

746 coal ash units in 43 states and Puerto Rico have reported information in compliance with federal coal ash safeguards since 2015. Here’s what the data said.

Northern Cheyenne Tribe and conservation groups urge Interior Department to act on coal

Trapping and snaring will no longer be allowed during non-denning periods

Under new guidance regarding hazardous sites, the current screening standard of 400ppm will be reduced to 200ppm, significantly increasing the number of sites subject to cleanup.