Historic Coal Ash Cleanup Agreement

EIP helped Ted Evgeniadis, the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper, and two other environmental groups secure the largest penalty for coal ash pollution in Pennsylvania’s history.

Talen Energy, owner of the Brunner Island Generating Station in York Haven, agreed to pay a $1 million penalty for leaking toxic pollutants into groundwater and the Susquehanna River, the largest Chesapeake Bay tributary.

Small Texas Town Gets Purification Plant

EIP report on arsenic contamination in Texas water systems inspires Congressman to secure $2 million to build a water filtration plant for Bruni, Texas.

The isolated, Latino community south of San Antonio had more than eight times the legal limit of arsenic, a carcinogen. A local family thanked EIP for shining a light on a long-ignored problem.

Student Stops the Biggest Trash-Burning Incinerator in America, with EIP’s Help

When she was just 16 years old, Destiny Watford decided to take on Maryland’s entire political establishment over a development project proposed near her neighborhood in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay.

A New York-based company called Energy Answers was proposing to build America’s biggest trash-burning incinerator in Fairfield, not far from her high school.

Shutting Down America’s Biggest Coal Ash Waste Pond

Years ago, there was a wooded valley with a stream running through it in Chester, West Virginia.

Curt Havens, an assistant post master in the rural community, and his wife, Debbie, built their home and their life next to that hollow. They were raising two sons, enjoying their gardening – when one day a man came by, flashed a brochure and told them the good news. A manmade lake would be built in the valley, and all the neighbors could enjoy it for boating, fishing, and sunbathing.