Norfolk Southern Corp. makes a lot of money moving coal around the country.

In 2010, coal contributed $2.7 billion of business – 28 percent of the company’s total revenue.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality should never have allowed developers to build a golf course with coal ash, according to a former employee who argues that it should have become a regulated landfill.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.  Federal environmental officials are thinking about regulating the waste left over after electric utilities burn coal, and they want to know what North Carolina residents think.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in Charlotte today for one of seven public hearings on its proposal to regulate coal ash for the first time.

CHESAPEAKE No love was shown Monday night for Dominion Virginia Power's plan to reduce toxic arsenic leaching from its fly-ash landfill into groundwater bordering the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River. All of the speakers at a Virginia Department of Environmental Quality hearing except for one Dominion official opposed the plan, which the DEQ will accept, reject or modify by late October.

CHESAPEAKE Karen and Stephen Fox have had a rough year or so, by most measures. He was diagnosed in March 2009 with larynx cancer and has struggled through treatments. Medical bills stacked up for that and his wife's previously diagnosed lupus. Their three dogs - a spitz, an Australian shepherd and a 2-year-old Shih Tzu - died from cancer or kidney ailments.

CHESAPEAKE Ted Yoakam emerged Wednesday morning from Circuit Courtroom 6 and gave three fist pumps in quiet celebration.

CHESAPEAKE The EPA concluded that their golf course is safe. City water is on the way, so they can build a clubhouse. All in all, owners of the Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville are feeling better about the prospects of the controversial course, built on fly ash and placed at the center of a $1 billion lawsuit by 400 nearby residents.

CHESAPEAKE After an investigation that stretched for nearly two years, a contractor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that contaminants found in the water under a Chesapeake golf course sculpted from fly ash pose no public health threat.

CHESAPEAKE A former construction manager say s Dominion Virginia Power directed the building of a golf course in southern Chesapeake with 1.5 million tons of fly ash to disguise the project's true purpose - as a coal waste dump.

CHESAPEAKE The city plans to begin construction this fall on a project to extend public water to residents around a golf course sculpted from 1.5 million tons of fly ash.