EPA objects to Georgia coal ash storage plan

The Georgia Power headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Updated Feb. 23 at 3:26 p.m.

Federal regulators are pushing back on a Georgia Power plan for storing coal ash that had been approved by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. In a letter last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency echoed concerns raised by environmental advocates about the ash from a retired coal-fired power plant in North Georgia.