The Alabama Power Co.'s plan to close a coal-fired power plant leaves behind millions of tons of ash that will leach into waterways and could get released by storms or flooding into the Mobile River and the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, a complaint alleges.
The electric utility’s James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant is violating an Environmental Protection Agency rule and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by leaving 21 million tons of coal ash in a capped, unlined impoundment in wetlands adjacent to the Mobile River, according to the lawsuit filed Monday by former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District ...
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