EPA’s coal ash oversight actions could send Ga. Power ‘back to the drawing board’

Coal ash, seen here in swirls on the surface of the Dan River in Danville, Virginia, is a byproduct from burning coal for electricity. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to strengthen its oversight of coal ash. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to strengthen its oversight of coal ash, a toxic byproduct from burning coal for electricity.

The agency is clarifying that power companies have to clean up their coal ash and store it in a way that can’t leak and harm people who live nearby.