Public hearings on proposed coal ash disposal rules have commenced and Citizens for Recycling First is attending every hearing to support actions that encourage recycling as a safe, environmentally preferable alternative t...

            Citizens concerned about protecting coal ash recycling now have more opportunities to make their voices heard.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added public hearings in two more cities – Pittsburgh and L...

            An expert medical study of 214 people who live near the Kingston, Tennessee, coal ash spill has concluded they have suffered no serious health effects from the incident and are not expected to develop health problems in th...

            Television news program 60 Minutes repeated a nearly year-old attack on coal ash August 15 without making any effort to update incomplete or misleading aspects of its report.        &n...

            A newspaper editorial in the August 3 Roanoke Times that badly mischaracterizes the coal ash disposal regulation issue has drawn a response from Citizens for Recycling First.        &n...

            The Coal Combustion Products Partnership web site is accessible on the Internet again – but the Environmental Protection Agency has hidden it in a location not likely to be seen by many people.     &...

            A frequent question to Citizens for Recycling First is: “What specific things can I do to support coal ash recycling?”  In the spirit of checklists, here’s the Top Ten:        &nb...

            The director of Oregon State University’s Green Building Materials Laboratory has warned that a proposal to designate coal ash as “hazardous waste” when it is disposed “…comes with a certain public stigma associated with i...

            A Washington DC activist group is demanding that the federal government ban the use of coal ash in federal construction projects – despite the fact that official federal policy since 1983 has been to encourage the practice...

Before leaving Washington last week to begin their summer recess, more than 180 members of Congress sent letters to the Environmental Protection Agency opposing any form of “hazardous” designation for coal ash. At least four letters were sent showing strong bipartisan opposition to EP...