Overview of Coal Ash Clean-up Efforts in North Carolina
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Time: 12 - 1 PM EDT
Cost: Free
Location: Zoom*
Speaker: Jordan Russ
Engineering Project Manager, Solid Waste Section
Division of Waste Management
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Abstract
An overview of the history and current progress of coal ash clean-up efforts in North Carolina. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NC DEQ) secured the excavation of more than 80 million tons of coal ash under a settlement agreement with community and environmental groups and Duke Energy. The terms of that agreement were incorporated into a Consent Order entered in court on February 5, 2020. The excavation is the largest coal ash clean up in the nation’s history. (Learn more: https://www.deq.nc.gov/news/key-issues/coal-ash-excavation)
Biography
Jordan Russ is a permitting engineer with the Solid Waste Section, Division of Waste Management, NC DEQ, with five years of experience in general solid waste permitting and is also part of NC DEQ’s coal ash team that is overseeing the clean-up of coal ash statewide at several power plant facilities.
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