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TVA customers footing bill for coal ash spill
Posted: January 6, 2010 Environmental

Customers of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) are footing the bill for the massive billion-dollar cleanup effort in an east Tennessee community where more than a billion gallons of coal ash spilled creating the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.

EPA says coal ash regulations will not come in 2009
Posted: December 31, 2009 Environmental

Environmental groups and coal-firing operations will have to wait even longer for federal regulations to ensure the protection of public health and the environment regarding the storage of coal ash, according to a statement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Tenn. coal ash spill among worst man-made environmental disasters
Posted: December 29, 2009 Environmental

Last year, when a coal ash impoundment pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) fossil fuel plant in east Tennessee breached, sending a wave of toxic material on to a neighboring rural community, the event made headlines worldwide as one

Coal ash spill among top news stories in Tennessee
Posted: December 25, 2009 Environmental

The Associated Press and AP member newspapers and broadcasters have listed the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal ash spill as one of the biggest news events in Tennessee in 2009. The coal ash spill occurred on Dec. 22, 2008, but

EPA says coal ash is safe to use as fertilizer on crops
Posted: December 24, 2009 Environmental

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says it is OK for farmers to spread coal ash on to their fields to fertilize soil, even though the material contains toxins that have been linked to serious health complications such as cancer and

TVA claims protection as coal ash lawsuits mount
Posted: December 23, 2009 Environmental

Environmental lawsuits can be complex and take years to resolve because the damages may take decades to surface, says Gregory Button, a University of Tennessee anthropologist who studies environmental disasters such as the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. That means

TVA coal ash spill – one year later
Posted: December 22, 2009 Environmental

One year ago today, coal ash poured out from an impoundment pond at the Kingston Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) fossil fuel plant and blanketed a neighboring community with more than a billion gallons of toxic material. Houses were destroyed, property

Turner calls coal ash storage a ‘godsend’
Posted: December 17, 2009 Environmental

Alabama County Commissioner Albert Turner, Jr. says last year’s disastrous coal ash spill from a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal-firing plant that destroyed homes, damaged property and contaminated nearby waterways turned out to be a “godsend” for the poor, black

Environmentalist groups want TVA to be prosecuted, fined
Posted: December 16, 2009 Environmental

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) should be prosecuted and penalized for not ensuring the safety of its Kingston, Tenn., coal ash impoundment pond to prevent it from breaking and spilling a billion gallons of toxic coal ash on to a

Emory River polluted with carcinogens, dangerous metals
Posted: December 10, 2009 Environmental

More pollutants and carcinogens were dumped into waterways near the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Kingston, Tenn., plant in 2008 than were released to waterways by the entire U.S. power industry in 2007, according to a report by the Environmental Protection