Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Brian Williams heads to the banks of the Dan River he sees the heart of his community. It’s a home to fish, a source of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. – The country’s largest electric company is not providing online access to federally mandated maps showing the scope of disaster resulting if a coal-ash pit burst and spilled its toxic ...

On the morning of May 18, 1980, the most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history killed 57 people in Washington state. The enormous column of ash that was unleashed by Mount St. Helens has been ...

Before then, relatively few people in the United States knew or thought much about the residue left behind at the hundreds of power plants that were then burning coal—even though it amounted to one of ...

ROANE COUNTY, Tenn. — East Tennessee is still feeling the impact of one of the worst manmade environmental disasters in U.S. history. Around 15 years ago, a retention pond full of toxic coal ash ...

Over the past half century, Japan has been hit by many volcanic eruptions, but scientifically those were only considered to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the Kingston coal ash spill and nearly 15 years of lawsuits that followed, Jared Sullivan, a journalist from Franklin, ...

All residents in the zone from Mount Fuji to Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, just west of Tokyo, should evacuate in the ...

KINGSTON, Tenn. (WTVF) — Janie Clark and Betty Johnson said coal ash killed their husbands. Ansol Clark and Tommy Johnson were some of the first to respond to the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston ...

EDEN, N.C. — When Brian Williams heads to the banks of the Dan River he sees the heart of his community. It’s a home to fish, a source of drinking water and, after years of hard work with the Dan ...