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Looking to the future, many enthusiastically embrace a clean energy shift, including a continued move away from coal-derived energy. Meanwhile, electric utility  companies are pressed to remove and legally dispose of hundreds of millions of tons of coal ash generated over the last 100 years as a by-product of coal-derived  energy. As planners seek to repurpose land previously occupied by coal-fired power plants, they need insurance against claims for coal ash on site. Coal ash may  also have been disposed of on other sites as waste for beneficial uses, creating other potential sources of environmental harm. Read more.