"The Safe Drinking Water Act belongs to all Americans," said EIP Director Eric Schaeffer. "Communities that live near leaking ash dumps deserve the law's protections. Why would Congress want to authorize a construction of coal ash sites designed to fail those health-based standards? And since when are standards that are supposed to keep our drinking water safe "not needed" for coal ash management?"

California ranked among the top 10 states for one-year increases in carbon-dioxide pollution from power plants in 2007, an environmental group said Monday.

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By Vicki Vaughan, San Antonio Express-News Feb. 9--It's a dubious distinction: Six Texas plants made a Top 10 list of U.S. refineries that release the most cancer-causing chemicals into the air, an environmental group said Thursday.

By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun Jun. 16--Four environmental groups sent notice to Maryland's largest power plant yesterday that they intend to sue its owner over thousands of air pollution violations linked to heart failure and asthma attacks.