coal ash

States are banning coal. Will it change the electricity mix?

States banning coal — including Hawaii — had mostly already committed to reducing carbon emissions.

The utility will drop its legal fight with the state, dig up nearly 80 million tons of ash and move it to lined storage.

Amid federal uncertainty, two of the state’s most notorious coal ash storage sites will likely test new cleanup rules adopted this year.

Private well samples indicated possible contamination near the J.H. Campbell coal plant.

Even without floods, multiple Ohio sites already have been found to have elevated contaminant levels in groundwater.