EPA and Alabama Power to Start Settlement Negotiations Over Coal Ash Storage in Mobile

Inside Climate News · By Lee Hedgepeth · last updated January 6, 2024 – 12:02 AM

The talks come as a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking greater environmental protections at a toxic sludge in a pit near a power plant above Mobile Bay that has polluted groundwater. Will it remain there?

By Lee Hedgepeth

MOBILE, Ala.—A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Alabama Power filed by Mobile Baykeepers over the utility’s storage of more than 21 million tons of coal ash, a toxic sludge, in an unlined pit above Mobile Bay.

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