New data on coal ash ponds in the U.S. has shed light on the extent of contamination at one of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s power plants in north Alabama. Widows Creek Fossil Plant, in the ...

Alabama's ash trees are under attack. A fast-spreading insect known as the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has reached Jefferson and Madison counties after being documented in four other Alabama counties.

David Bronner, CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, called on state leaders to address the massive coal ash pond that sits along the Mobile River, calling it a “huge environmental bomb.” “We do ...

GADSDEN, Ala.—The coal ash lagoon at Alabama Power’s Plant Gadsden was supposed to be a model for how to close ash ponds by covering them in place, a process utilities insisted would protect human ...