Tagged With Tennessee
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smoke in the water
Coal ash contamination imperils July 4 festival goers in Tennessee 0
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Slip Slidin' Away
Was the Tennessee coal ash disaster really a once-in-a-lifetime event? 0
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago
A new report from an engineering firm hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority identified factors behind last year's disaster that unleashed more than a billion of gallons of toxic ash from a massive storage pond at the federal company's Kingston plant. It claims that the disaster was a one-of-a-kind event -- but skeptical coal ash watchdogs are calling for a more thorough investigation by federal authorities.
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Audit finds Tennessee Valley Authority misled on ash spill disaster 0
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago The Tennessee Valley Authority's Inspector General released a critical audit this week on the federal company's response to last December's massive ash spill disaster at its Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee's Roane County. The incident involved a failure in a coal ash containment pond that released more than a billion gallons of toxic waste into a nearby community and river.
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Black Tide
Must-read new story on the Tennessee coal ash disaster and the myth of “clean coal” 4
Posted 1 month ago A blockbuster story in the new GQ takes a comprehensive look at the Tenn. coal ash disaster of last December and the mockery it makes of "clean coal." An early contender for Year's Best Journalism.
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Hot potato
Pennsylvania rejected TVA coal ash that’s going to poor communities in Alabama and Georgia 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Some of the more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash that spilled from an impoundment at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee last December is making its way to landfills in poor and black communities in Alabama and Georgia, as we reported last week at Facing South.
It turns out that TVA also looked into sending the waste to Pennsylvania for dumping into abandoned mines -- but that state's Department of Environmental Protection rejected the ash as substandard. -
Runaway Joe
Debate: Roberts v. ‘clean coal’ flack Joe Lucas 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Here's an online debate between me and clean coal spokesflack Joe Lucas, originally run by the PBS show NOW.
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TVA: making Bozo look good 0
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TVA watchdogs arrested, harassed 3
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago -
TVA could have planned for a normal accident such as the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tenn. 3
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What’s it going to take to enact proactive energy and environmental policy? 1
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Who do we repay for the pollution from which we have benefitted? 3
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Tennessee coal ash spill contains high levels of toxic heavy metals 4
Posted 6 months ago -
Did the coal industry create its own PR nightmare? 4
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago -
Former MSHA investigator Tony Oppegard discusses the TVA coal investigation 2
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago -
A roundup of links and resources on the Tenn. coal ash spill 3
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago -
Is This What They Call ‘Clean Coal’?
Massive coal-ash spill in Tennessee threatens water supplies and public health 1
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago -
Up Shit Creek
Giant pond of coal ash escapes, floods Tennessee homes 5
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GOP rep in Tenn. loses primary after being linked to Big Oil 1
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Nashville mayor stumps for public transit 0
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago -
A Moment in the Sun
How three Southeast cities are changing 1
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago