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County Commissioners served a notice of intent to sue under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Tuesday. It alleges the plant’s former and current owners violated the federal environmental law while storing coal combustion residual waste in contact with groundwater.

Two coal-fired power plants provided jobs and a sense of pride to the river village 20 miles east of Cincinnati. Market dynamics and the fight against climate change shuttered them — leaving economic and environmental issues that still haven't been addressed fully.

Both are a big deal in a district where 40% of students live in families below the poverty line.

The design process is approaching completion on New Richmond's Liberty Landing project. Boosters say it will help New Richmond remake its economy, but it hasn't always been smooth sailing.

Brad Mank is an environmental law professor at the University of Cincinnati. He teaches a similar case and says the Ohio v. EPA decision will continue to worsen air quality, especially on the East Coast.

Updated: Jan. 8, 2021, 12:18 p.m.The last man missing from the December collapse of the former Killen power plant in Adams County has been found. "The…

Duke Energy Beckjord LLC and its president Charles Whitlock pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday in connection with a 2014 oil spill into the Ohio…

The W.C. Beckjord Station power plant, located on the bank of the Ohio River southeast of Cincinnati in New Richmond, began generating electricity in…

Duke Energy is moving up the timeline on plans to shut down its remaining coal-fired units at its New Richmond plant.Duke says it will retire the last two…

Duke Energy is now reporting 9,000 gallons of fuel spilled into the Ohio River August 18 at the W.C. Beckjord Station. The original estimate was about…