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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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Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Environmental Protection Agency, Ben Nelson, Rob Portman, Mike Enzi, Kent Conrad, Environmental Integrity Project, John Boozman, Coal Ash, Kingston Fossil Plant, Coal Ash Spill, Joe Manchin, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

Just days before the three-year anniversary of the devastating dike failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Environment...

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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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Alabama Nuclear Plant Cited For "Significant" Safety Problems

AP | By RAY HENRY | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Alabama Nuclear Plant, Energy, Nuclear Plant Inspections, Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear Plant Alabama, Nuclear Plant Violation, Browns Ferry, Nrc, Nuclear Power Plant Inspections, Nuclear Plant Cited, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

ATLANTA -- Federal regulators ordered in-depth inspections Tuesday at a nuclear power plant run by the Tennessee Valley Authority in northern Alabama ...

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Storms Cause Power Outages In Southern States, Knock Out Nuclear Units In Alabama

Reuters | Peggy Gargis | Posted 06.27.2011

April 28, 2011 12:47:21 AM By Peggy Gargis BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - Powerful storms cut power and knocked out nuclear units as they tore ...

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Our Responsibility to the Earth

Michael Brune | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Earth Day 2011, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green Transportation, Clean Energy, Epa, Green News

Big Oil and its proxies hate alternative energy and energy efficiency. Do you think they'd be kicking and screaming to stop progress if they didn't see a threat to their bottom line?

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Green News Report: April 21, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Co2, Fracking, Epa, Green Business, Clean Energy, Coal, Radioactivity, Power Shift, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Bill Mckibben, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Clean Energy Jobs, Van Jones, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Lobbying, Lou Dobbs, Earthquake, Environmentalism, Gulf Oil Spill, Barack Obama, Power Shift 2011, Toxic Chemicals, Poison, Senate, Japan Earthquake, Mining, Wildfires, Sustainability, Japan, BP Oil Spill, Iraq, Cap and Trade, Pesticides, Green Jobs, Factory Farms, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Nuclear, Pollution, Tennessee Valley Authority, Antibiotic Resistance, Water Contamination, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Contamination, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Tennessee, Electric Cars, Deepwater Horizon, Gop, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Bp, Earth Day, Utilities, Transocean, Fred Hiatt, Texas, Iraq War, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Endangered Species, Toxic Waste, Hydraulic Fracturing, National Parks, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's hard...

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Green News Report: April 19, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Co2, Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Business, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Water Contamination, Radioactivity, Fossil Fuels, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Contamination, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Clean Energy Jobs, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Utilities, Earthquake, Environmentalism, Transocean, Barack Obama, Senate, Japan Earthquake, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Toxic Waste, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Supreme Court, Power Shift, Washington Post, Gulf of Mexico, Bill Mckibben, Van Jones, Lobbying, Lou Dobbs, Gulf Oil Spill, Power Shift 2011, Toxic Chemicals, Poison, Mining, Wildfires, Iraq, Pesticides, Cap and Trade, Factory Farms, Tennessee Valley Authority, Antibiotic Resistance, Big Oil, Tennessee, Electric Cars, Deepwater Horizon, Earth Day, Fred Hiatt, Texas, Iraq War, Energy Efficiency, Yosemite, National Parks, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Big victo...

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From Depression to Public Inspiration

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Works, Boston, Depression, Dams, New Deal, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Bridges, Conservation, Gop, Franklin Roosevelt, Republican Party, Tennessee Valley Authority, Great Depression, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News

Did you ever wonder why some of America's greatest public works projects were accomplished during its worst depression? President Obama has the right idea when he calls for major investment in 21st Century infrastructure.

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New Coal Ash Hotline and Video

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Ash, Sierra Club, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee, Green News

The comment period for the EPA's proposed coal ash safeguards is winding down, with the deadline being next Friday. Have you submitted your comment yet?

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Coal Ash: Let Your Voice Be Heard

Harmon Leon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Ash Spill, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee Coal Ash, Epa, Bp, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News

What is coal ash and why should we be concerned?

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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

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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Alabama Nuke in Hot Water

Kyle Rabin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Energy, Electricity, Tennessee Valley Authority, Nuclear Power, Water, Green News

Failure to act in a swift, decisive and effective manner will have severe environmental and economic repercussions. Part of any action plan must be breaking our dependence on antiquated conventional power generation.

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EPA Ignores TN and AL on Coal Ash, Nearest Hearing Is 260 Miles From TVA Disaster Site

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Justice, Earthjustice, Clean Coal, Arrowhead Landfill, Epa, Environmental Integrity Project, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Public Hearings, Uniontown Alabama, Sierra Club, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

Residents of Tennessee might have a few things to say about the impacts of coal ash, since the state suffered the worst coal ash disaster in U.S. history less than two years ago.

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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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The Oil Spill as America's Wake up Call: The Urgent Need for an American Energy NASA

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nasa, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Oil, Green, Business, Gulf Oil Spill, Technology, Tennessee Valley Authority, Politics News

Now is the moment to go one major step further than the Tennessee Valley Authority did: It is time to create an American Energy NASA.

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Obama's Brave Decison to Drill Offshore

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norway's National Oil Trust, Politics, President Roosevelt, President Obama, Oil, Green, Norway, Tennessee Valley Authority, Offshore Drilling, Business News

Obama should seize this moment by establishing our own National Oil Trust. It could be modeled after our experience with the TVA and that of the world's third largest energy exporter, Norway's National Oil Trust.

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Oil Spewing in the Gulf: Now Is the Time for the National Renewable Energy Trust

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, President Roosevelt, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Oil, Green, Norway, Tennessee Valley Authority, Continental Shelf, Gulf Oil Spill, Business News

The revenues from oil and gas deposits should be channeled toward developing alternative energy sources as the cornerstone of a viable program for breaking our increasingly dangerous dependency on fossil fuels.

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Federal Survey Finds Coal Ash Sites In 35 States

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Sites, Tennessee Valley Authority, Toxic Coal Ash, Green News

WASHINGTON — (AP) The toxic leftovers from burning coal for power are sitting in nearly 600 sites in 35 states, according to a federal survey re...

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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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We Are Here For Your Protection

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Coal, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee Coal Spill, Department of Homeland Security, Kingston Fossil, Senator Barbara Boxer, Coal Ash Spill, Coal Ash Dumps, Politics News

Saying something is for the "protection" of the American people is usually code for "covering our own asses." The recent coal ash spill in Tennessee was 100 times worse than the Exxon-Valdez spill.

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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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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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Mike Duncan, TVA's New Chairman

Yahoo! Finance | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Duncan, TVA Spill, Tva, Pollution, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Though it has tried to fight an image as a refuge for the politically connected, the leadership of the Tennessee Valley Autho...

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A View to a Spill: Coal Ash Slideshow

Rob Perks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Mountaintop Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee, Environment, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Spill, Coal, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

It's one thing for a group of scientists to suggest turning lemons into lemonade in the case of the TVA spill, but the folks living this nightmare don't seem to like the sour taste. Who can blame them?

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