{"id":148566,"date":"2026-04-10T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=148566"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:27:43","slug":"epa-moves-to-ease-coal-ash-regulations-for-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/10\/epa-moves-to-ease-coal-ash-regulations-for-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Moves to Ease Coal Ash Regulations for Power Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are 300 regulated coal facilities that contain 775 coal ash surface impoundments and landfills across the country. At least 91% of those coal plants are polluting groundwater above federal safety standards, according to Earthjustice.<\/p>\n

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There are 300 regulated coal facilities that contain 775 coal ash surface impoundments and landfills across the country. At least 91% of those coal plants are polluting groundwater above federal safety standards, according to Earthjustice.<\/p>\n

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There are 300 regulated coal facilities that contain 775 coal ash surface impoundments and landfills across the country. At least 91% of those coal plants are polluting groundwater above federal safety standards, according to Earthjustice. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are 300 regulated coal facilities that contain 775 coal ash surface impoundments and landfills across the country. At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/legal-news-5XIDd5.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148578,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148566\/revisions\/148578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}