Coal ash recycling rates stalled after eight years of dramatic growth when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began reconsidering a “hazardous waste” designation for ash that is disposed. Now, as EPA’s activities drag on, recycling rates have ...

Citizens for Recycling First has succeeded in gathering 5,000 signatures for its petition on a new White House website that promises a response from the Obama Administration. A total of 5,133 signatures were gathered by the October 24 deadline. According to the White House website, the ad...

            A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. Senators filed a bill on October 20 to create enforceable national coal ash disposal standards while protecting coal ash recycling from an unwarranted “hazardous waste” designation.   ...

The U.S. House of Representatives on October 14 passed legislation designed to protect coal ash recycling and strengthen coal ash disposal regulations without a “hazardous waste” designation for the material. HR 2273 – the “Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act” – was approved by a bipa...

Citizens for Recycling First has placed a petition on a new White House website that promises a response from the Obama Administration if we can get 5,000 signatures by October 24. You can sign the petition by clicking here: http://wh.gov/gu4         ...

            Citizens for Recycling First has placed a petition on a new White House website that promises a response from the Obama Administration if we can get 5,000 signatures in 30 days. You can sign the petition by clicking here: http://...

Coal fly ash use has been identified by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a key strategy for improving life-cycle costs and reducing emissions associated with concrete structures and paving. In 2009, MIT established a research group called the Concrete Sustainability...

            As the third anniversary of the Kingston coal ash spill approaches, clean-up of the site is nearly complete and exhaustive health and environmental studies are failing to find any lasting damage.      &...

A new economic study by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association has found that the cost of building roads and bridges in the United States will increase by more than $100 billion over 20 years if coal fly ash is no longer available as an ingredient for concrete.   ...

            Labeling coal ash a “hazardous waste” when disposed could cost the nation more than $1 billion per year, President Barack Obama said in an August 30 letter to U.S. House of Representatives leaders. In fact, proposed coal ash regul...