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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday made public a list of 26 communities in 10 states where residents are potentially threatened by coal-ash storage ponds similar to one that flooded a neighborhood in Tennessee last year.
North Carolina has the most sites on the list, 12. The largest concentration is near Cochise, Ariz., where there are seven storage ponds.
The agency said it will inspect each of the 44 coal-ash sites near communities to make certain they are structurally sound. The sites are being classified as potentially highly hazardous because they are near where people live and not because of any discovered defect.
