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EPA Reports “Widespread Noncompliance” With the Nation’s First Regulations on Toxic Coal Ash

Inside Climate News · By Amy Green · last updated
A glaring loophole already had allowed at least a half-billion tons of the waste to go unregulated. Now the agency says many of the facilities that are subject to the rules do not comply.

By Amy Green

ORLANDO, Fla.—There is “widespread noncompliance” with the nation’s first regulations on coal ash, the toxic waste left after coal is burned for electricity, the Biden administration recently announced.