Utility settles with regulators over coal ash pollution in western Pennsylvania streams

Source: https://www.wesa.fm/, January 21, 2022
By: Reid Frazier

An electric utility has agreed to pay a $610,000 fine and build new discharge pipelines at two coal ash landfills as part of a settlement with federal and state agencies over water pollution.

According to the settlement and a complaint filed in federal court in Pittsburgh by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, West Penn Power exceeded federal pollution limits at two coal ash landfills it owns in western Pennsylvania – one at the Mingo Landfill in Union Township, Washington County, and the other at Springdale Landfill in Frazer Township, Allegheny County. Read more.

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