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The 10 Biggest Environmental Issues Facing The U.S. In 2012

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Year-in-Review, Energy, Video, Environmental Laws, Environmental Policy, Epa, Vermont Law Environmental Watch List, Keystone Pipeline, Endangered Species, Keystone XL, Coal, Environmental Watch List, Tva, Green News

What are the biggest environmental and energy policy challenges facing America today? A list from Vermont Law School highlights the 10 most important ...

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Elevated Levels Of Radioactive Material Found At Nuclear Plant

AP | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Energy, Video, Tennessee, Nuclear Power, Radioactive Tritium, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear-Power, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tva, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Radioactive Tritium, Green News

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Valley Authority has reported finding elevated levels of radioactive tritium in a groundwater sample from a new on...

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The Coal Ash Dilemma

J Henry Fair | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Fertilizer, Natural Disasters, Tennessee Coal Ash, Erin Brockovich, Washington DC, Hexavalent Chromium, Coal, Tva, Slidepollajax, Green News
J Henry Fair

2011-10-13-Screenshot20111013at4.12.55PM.jpgOur reliance on coal for electricity production has produced about 600 coal ash dumps around the country.

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TVA Ash Spill Trial Underway

AP | By BILL POOVEY | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Tva Ash Spill, Tennessee Valley Authority Coal Ash Spill, Epa, Environment, Tva Coal Ash Spill, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tva, Environmental Protection, Green News

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A federal judge on Thursday began hearing from both sides in the legal battle over whether the Tennessee Valley Authority should p...

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Too Cheap to Meter: The Top 10 Myths of Nuclear Power

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meltdown, Atoms for Peace, Tva, J. Robert Openheimer, Japan, Daniel Hirsch, David Freeman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Peter A. Bradford, Nrc, Bridge the Gap, President Eisenhower, Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Complex, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Michael Rose, Nuclear Power, Victor Gilinsky, Green News
Michael Rose

Wrapping nukes in a green cloak and declaring their oneness with those concerned with climate change has helped to sway public opinion. But nuclear power is really too expensive and dangerous to use.

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How Our Leadership Can Solve the Budget Crisis -- And, Why They Won't

Bayard H. Waterbury, III | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Saddam Hussein, National Debt, Stalin, Wpa, Desert Storm, Trickle-Down Economics, World War II, Tva, Great Depression, Politics News
Bayard H. Waterbury, III

I am an American, an aging American Baby Boomer. I was born in 1946, following the end of WWII. That was a tenuous time in American history, not unlike the present in the degree of challenges facing this country.

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Our Nation's Great Disgrace

Pat LaMarche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gainesville, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Homeless, Alabama, Tennessee, Tva, Diane Nilan, Impact News
Pat LaMarche

I'm back home now after our two weeks on the road yielding maybe five hundred brand new eye witnesses to our great national disgrace.

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The Aftermath of the TVA Coal Ash Disaster

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Coal Ash, TVA Disaster, Coal, Sierra Club, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee, Green News
Bruce Nilles

This is the latest in our series of community coal ash profiles. This was written by Sierra Club Apprentice Philip Hawes. Tennessee's Emory River has ...

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America in the Caboose While the World Barrels Ahead on High Speed Rail

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Politics, Oil Industry, Third World America, President Obama, Oil, Green, High Speed Rail, Hoover Dam, China, Opec, Tva, Stimulus, Congress, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Do we really need to focus on 150,000 miles of roads? They must be popping champagne bottles in the corner offices of the oil industry and at OPEC headquarters. What is it that our government doesn't get?

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Coal Ash Chickens: Does EPA Need New Disaster for Hazardous Ruling? INTERVIEW with Elisa Young, Coal Ash Frontlines

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Elisa Young, Ohio, Big Coal, Coal Ash, Lisa Jackson, Tva, Coal Ash Disaster, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Good morning, coal ash piles! The EPA thinks coal ash is "special." Notwithstanding the fact that 25 million tons of the deadly stuff--20 percent ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority Fined $11.5 Million For 'Unprecedented' Coal Ash Spill

AP | BILL POOVEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Green News, TVA Spill, TVA Coal Ash, TVA Disaster, Tva, TVA Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority has been hit with penalties totaling $11.5 million for the December 2008 coal ash spill at o...

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Black Water Rafting: When Will the EPA Enforce Coal Ash Laws in Alabama?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waterkeeper Alliance, Coal Ash, Dirty Coal, Coal, Tva, Epa, Alabama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

What is the EPA's excuse now? Waiting for more torrential rain to host Olympic Black Water rafting competitions?

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BREAKING: Tree-Sitters Shut Down Infamous Mountaintop Removal Operation; TVA Cops Strike Again

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Protests, Science, Coal Ash, Mountaintop Removal, Tva, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Perched on 60-foot-high platforms in tulip poplar and oak trees, three nonviolent tree-sitting protestors associated with Climate Ground Zero and Moun...

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Echoes of a Distant Crash

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Black Tuesday, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Tva, Free Market Ideology, Conservative Economics, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Eighty years ago this week, an enormous sound emanated from lower Manhattan and began to spread in waves across the nation and, eventually, the world.

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Coal Plants Creating Landfills In Order To Clean The Air

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Landfills, Coal, Tva, Tennessee, Green News

KINGSTON, Tenn. — Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also...

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Breaking: Suit Cites Chronic Pizarchik Failure: Millions Call for OSM Nominee Withdraw

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, Osmre, Green News, Green Jobs, President Barack Obama, Coal Ash, Joseph Pizarchik, Clean Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Pennsylvania, Tva, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Pizarchik's hearing on Tuesday will be a litmus test of the Obama administration's--and the US Senate's--commitment to appointing and confirming agency directors who believe in science and law in our nation's coalfields.

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Tennessee Group Invites Pro-Coal Fisherman to TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bass, Clean Coal, West Virginia, Jeremy Starks, Coal Ash, Harriman, Tennessee, Tva, Kingston, Green News
Dave Cooper

The TVA disaster -- over 100 times larger than the 12-million gallon Exxon Valdez spill -- is considered by environmentalists to be the world's worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl.

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TVA Ignored Ash Spill Warnings FOR 20 YEARS

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: TVA Report, Tva Ignored Warnings, Coal Ash Spill, Tennessee Valley Authority, Ash Spill Warnings, Tva, Green News

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority failed for more than 20 years to heed warnings that might have prevented a massive coal ash sp...

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Coal Ash Sites Kept Secret, While Industry Works to Prevent Regulations

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Coal, Tva, Sierra Club, Coal Ash, Clean Coal, Tennessee, Green News
Bruce Nilles

If you lived near a dump site where the hazardous waste was so toxic it could increase your cancer risk to as high as a staggering 1 in 50, wouldn't you want to know about it?

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EPA Taking Over Cleanup of Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster

Rob Perks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Tva, Energy, Dirty Coal, Epa Coal, Coal Industry, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee, Coal Ash, Coal Spill, Coal, Green News
Rob Perks

This is yet another example of the Obama EPA taking responsible action to return the agency to its core mission -- that of protecting America's natural resources and safeguarding public health.

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Coal Ash Clean-Up: EPA To Oversee TVA Disaster Recovery

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Environment, Tennessee, Coal Ash, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, TVA Disaster, Coal, Tva, Green News

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will oversee the cleanup of a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee that brought natio...

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Questions & Concerns Linger Over the TVA Spill

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Energy, TVA Spill, TVA Disaster, Coal, Sierra Club, Tva, Green News
Bruce Nilles

"It's like trying to get all the sand off a beach," said Sarah McCoin, member of the Tennessee Coal Ash Survivors Network, of the TVA's cleanup efforts.

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TVA Sheepishly Investing In Renewables Now

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Green Energy, Green Business, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Coal, Green News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — In the face of looming legislative pressures for cleaner energy, the nation's largest public utility agreed Thursday to bu...

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Tennessee Rep: Earthquake Caused TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kingston, Coal Ash, Clean Coal, Tva, Frank Nicely, Green News
Dave Cooper

Knoxville, Tennessee State Representative Frank Nicely is the kind of guy who says what he thinks -- no matter what the facts say.

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TVA Spill Victims Get Bids For Their Houses

wbir.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tennessee Coal Spill, Environment, Pollution, Tva, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

Nearly two months after the fact, the Tennessee Valley Authority is still only beginning to sort out the damage caused by a massive spill of toxic coa...

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