Snow College student Madelyn Allen was found naked and covered in coal in the coal storage area of a home in Loa, Utah, on Dec. 18, according to a police booking affidavit obtained by NBC ...

's plan to export coal through Oregon to Asia is designed to keep pollution down, featuring storage barns with air pollution scrubbers, enclosed conveyer belts and covered coal barges instead of ...

Even when sitting in storage, coal threatens human health Coal production in the United States is subject to many long-standing regulations that exist for good reason. By Akshaya Jha.

Coal ash storage and disposal went largely unregulated until a 2008 spill at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in ... A containment dike burst and flooding covered more than 300 acres ...

Water from the swollen Neuse River has completely flooded the tree-covered coal ash basins at Duke Energy's H.F. Lee plant near Goldsboro, raising concerns among environmental groups about ...

To put these figures in perspective, the average U.S. coal-fired power plant pays $48.00 per ton for coal, stockpiles 212,781.6 tons of coal and has 106,235 tons of coal delivered to it each month.

TVA is planning to build a 100-megawatt solar farm over a covered coal ash disposal site at the ... coal plants where TVA has created landfills and covered storage ponds for its coal ash storage.

A recent study shows that large piles of coal produce measurable quantities of fine particulate air pollution within a 25-mile radius. Covering coal trains and storage piles could reduce the problem.