Georgia Power paid top dollar to buy land from residents living near waste sites at its power plants. Environmentalists fear it’s a tactic to forestall the cleanup bill from new regulations for coal ash.

The mass tort lawsuit, filed Wednesday morning in the Superior Court of Fulton County, where Georgia Power is based, claims that coal ash stored in an unlined basin has contaminated the groundwater surrounding the plant site.

A Georgia bill relating to coal ash management that fizzled last year has now passed out of committee. House Bill 93 would require owners of coal ash...

When trash leaves your house and goes to the landfill, that landfill has features in place that keep liquids from the trash from getting into...

Georgia Power is on track to close its coal ash ponds by sometime next year, and who regulates that process could change soon. The federal EPA wants to...