Alverta C Walker

Coal Ash News February 2025. February 23, 2025 11:00 am. When coal is burned at georgia power’s plant scherer, the remaning toxic ash is sunk into the body of water in the foreground.

 — the federal environmental protection agency has begun asserting its authority over georgia plans for the long term storage of the toxic material left over from burning coal to make electricity, so called. On february 2, 2014, a stormwater pipe underneath the ash basin broke, sending 39,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of ash pond water into the dan river.