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TVA Downplays Tennessee Coal Ash Spill

Rob Perks | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: TVA Spill, Coal Ash Pollution, Tennessee Coal Ash, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Coal Ash Dumps, Tva, Toxic Coal Ash, TVA Sludge, Tennessee, Tennessee Coal Spill, Environment, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Spill, TVA Disaster, Green News
Rob Perks

A TVA memo scooped by the AP confirms what locals have been saying in the wake of the catastrophe, that TVA is more concerned with covering up than cleaning up its mess.

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TVA Doublespeak Translated: "We Must Stress the Fish"

Dave Cooper | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee, Coal Ash, Harriman, Slurry, Tva, Kingston, Coal, Sludge, Green News
Dave Cooper

TVA seems determined to bury the public in confusing technical jargon. What everyone wants to know is: is my family going to get sick or get cancer and die if we drink our tap water?

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TVA Disaster Spreads Far and Wide

Erin Brockovich and Robin Greenwald | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: TVA Spill, Disaster Relief, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee, Erin Brockovich Tva, Erin Brockovich, Green, Environment, Erin Brokovich Coal Spill, TVA Disaster, Tva, TVA Coal, Erin Brockovich Tennessee, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News
Erin Brockovich and Robin Greenwald

It occurred to me that maybe more was going on at the site of the 1.1 billion gallon coal ash spill in Tennessee than what I could gather from the news. With an invitation from the community, I decided to make the trip to the disaster site.

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Coal Ash Crisis Management: What's It Going to Take -- Dead Bodies?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Barbara Boxer, Carol Browner, Coal, Senator, Tennessee, Clean Water, Alabama, Water, Tva, TVA Disaster, Energy Policy, Energy, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Instead of crisis management, we need to phase-out all wet storage of toxic coal ash, inspect all toxic coal ash storage and disposal units and enact federal regulation of all toxic coal ash storage and disposal.

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Oklahoma Sen. Inhofe Walks Out on TVA Disaster Hearings

Dave Cooper | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Tennessee, Coal Ash, Inhofe, Slurry, Tva, Kingston, Sludge, Coal Ash Pollution, James Inhofe, Crandall Canyon Disaster, Polluted Groundwater, Crandall Canyon, Murray Energy, Polluted Drinking Water, Kingston Disaster, Coal Ash Arsenic Contamination, Murray Energy Safety Record, Tom Kilgore, Coal Ash Kingston, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Dave Cooper

Did Sen. Inhofe have an important engagement -- something more important than the problem of one million pounds of arsenic being dumped in our drinking water?

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Ocoee River Gets Gift Of Sludge From TVA, Too

tennessean.com | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: TVA Sludge, Water Pollutants, Water, Tennessee, Fishkill, Tva, Pollution, Coal, Ocoee River, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

TVA has released muddy sludge once again, this time on the Ocoee River in East Tennessee. Efforts to repair one of a series of dams on the river rele...

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TVA Board Members' Donations To Lamar Alexander

Nashville Is Talking | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee Coal Spill, Lamar Alexander, Tennessee, TVA Board of Directors, Tva, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

As I looked at the political contributions made by the Tennessee Valley Authority Board Members, one recipient kept coming up over and over: Sen. Lama...

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Tom Kilgore, TVA CEO, Talked To Angry Victims Yesterday, Senate Today

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Sludge, Clean Coal, Tom Kilgore, Tennessee, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tva Ceo, Fly Ash, Roane County, Coal, Tom Kilgore Testimony, Green News

Tom Kilgore, CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, testified today before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee at 10 a.m. EST today. V...

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Tennesseeans Bring Jar Of Sludge To Sen. Boxer Ahead Of Hearing

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Coal Sludge, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, Fly Ash, Tennessee, Roane County, Coal, Green News

The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that Tennessee residents met with Sen. Barbara Boxer and others in Washington yesterday to talk about the effects ...

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Tennessee Coal Sludge Disaster: Think This Could Not Happen to You? Think Again.

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee, Environment, 1sky, Clean Coal Myth, Tennessee Valley Authority, Coal Sludge Spill, Green News
Gillian Caldwell

The Tennessee coal ash spill was a man-made disaster that is directly tied to our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Canoeing Into Tennessee Coal Sludge (Video)

Sandra Diaz | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee Coal Sludge, Video, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee, Roane County, Kingston Tennessee, Coal Ash Spill, Tva, Pollution, Tennessee Valley Authority, Sandra Diaz, Green News
Sandra Diaz

The irony of a TVA cop giving us citations for criminal trespassing, even though we were in U.S. Waters, while islands of toxic coal ash were sitting behind him, did not escape me.

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Why TVA Coal Investigation Matters: Interview with Former MSHA Investigator

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Coal, Mining, Big Coal, Clean Water, Tennessee, Kentucky, Clean Energy, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, TVA Coal, Environmental Protection, Tony Oppegard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

When wildfires consume beautiful homes in California, it headlines the evening news. But when thousands of people go without water for weeks in Appalachia, it's not "newsworthy."

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... And Now For Some Good News From TVA

Dave Cooper | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Sludge, Environment, Coal Ash, Tennessee, Tva, Slurry, Kingston, Harriman, Green News
Dave Cooper

According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, the 5-story tall mountain of coal waste didn't collapse into the river like a tsunami of sludge -- no, it was "displaced."

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The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Mckinsey, George W. Bush, Lyn Westmoreland, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, Redistricting, Virginia, Condoleezza Rice, Mel Martinez, Republican Party, Minneapolis, Agnosticism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Alabama, Congress, Catholicism, Christian Issues, Midwest, Kansas City, JC Watts, Tennessee, Christianity, Senate, New Orleans, Gop, Palm Beach, Kkk, Cuban-American Issues, Maryland, Mel Watt, Arizona, Democratic Party, California, Evangelicals, Ken Blackwell, Jewish Issues, Ahn Cao, Ohio, Latino Issues, Islam, John McCain, Florida, Appalachia, House, Asian-American Issues, White Supremacists, Sanford Bishop, Hispanic Issues, Milwaukee, Deep South, Memphis, Religion, Segregation, Georgia, Southern Issues, Charles Barkley, David Duke, Gay Issues, White Voters, Lousiana, Barack the Magic Negro, Gop White Supremacy, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.

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Coal Ash Spill In Tennessee Much Larger Than Initially Estimated

New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 01.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Ash, Tennessee, Coal Ash Spill, Coal Spill, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA Kingston, Green News

A coal ash spill that blanketed residential neighborhoods and contaminated nearby rivers in Roane County, Tenn., earlier this week is more than three ...

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Massive Coal Sludge Spill Devastates Tennessee Town

Treehugger | Matthew Mcdermott | Posted 01.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Sludge, Tennessee, Toxic Coal, Tva, TVA Disaster, Coal Power Plant, Coal Sludge Spill, TVA Kingston, Green News

An environmental disaster of epic proportions just happened in Tennessee. Monday night 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallon...

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Where To Live Now: Using The Electoral Map As Guide

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 12.15.2008 | Style

Read More: Washington, Mexico, Oregon, Blue States, Colorado, Texas, Election Results, Red States, Virginia, Relocation, Montana, Election Reaction, New Mexico, Ex-Pat, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, Style News
Jeannie Ralston

I've found that I've increasingly consulted the electoral map as I've been trying to zero in on our new home.

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October car/truck sales reports - Fuel for Obama campaign

Steve Parker | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iowa, Chrysler, George W. Bush, Cars, Detroit News, Detroit Auto Show, Ford, Democratic Party, Robert Lutz, Mississippi, Bailout, New Jersey, General Motors, Paris Car Show, Tennessee, Nissan, Michigan, Renault, John McCain, California, Gm, Cnbc, Indiana, Detroit Three, Ohio, French, Washington DC, Chrysler Nissan Deal, Barack Obama, New York, Texas, Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet Cruze, Alabama, Politics News
Steve Parker

This Monday, the new car and truck sales reports for the month of October will be announced, and are expected to be the worst in 25-or-more years. T...

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Obama Could Lose Election Due To Voter Suppression

Judah Freed | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Elections, Law, Democrat, Youth Vote, Swift Boat, Obama, Democratic Party, Voter Suppression, Voting Problems, Voter Su, Colorado, Acorn Voter Fraud, Hava, Voter Registration, Voters, Election 2008, Voter Fraud, Republican Party, Voting, Denver, Republican Presidential Candidate, Acorn Voter Registration, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John McCain, Acorn, Women Voters, Indiana, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Democracy, Democrats, Acorn Scandal, 2008 Election, Election, Barack Obama, Swiftboating, Early Voting, Republican, New York Times, Breaking Politics News, Voter ID Laws, Republicans, West Virginia, Paper Ballots, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Tennessee, Home News
Judah Freed

Republicans are seeking to suppress the voter turnout among youth, minorities and poor people. If Republicans can prevent enough Democrats from casting ballots, McCain could win the election.

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David Gergen Is Wrong About Early Voting Being Light

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, North Caoolina, Ohio, Media, Bloomberg, Texas, Stephen C. Rose, Politics, David Gergen, Light Early Voting, Early Voting, Barack Obama, Cnn, Tennessee, Heavy Early Voting, truevote.us, Media News
Stephen C. Rose

On a late show on CNN Thursday, David Gergen casually suggests that early voting has been light and hearts sink. Is he right?

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Dad'll Be Palin For This For Years

Disgrasian | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Bad Baby Names, Mccain Palin Ticket, Poor Decisions, McCain Palin, Tennessee, Sarah Palin, Sarah Mccain Palin, Satire, Political Satire, Secrets, Politics News
Disgrasian

Mark Ciptak, a new father in Tennessee, "surprised" his wife this week -- by ignoring their chosen baby name "Ava Grace".

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Obama And McCain: Address Gun Violence In America

Paul Helmke | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nashville Debate, Gun Show Loophole, 2008 Elections, Nashville, John McCain, Suicide, Brady Law, Gun Control, Presidential Debates, Nra, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Guns, Illegal Guns, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, Gun Violence, Criminal Background Checks, National Rifle Association, Tennessee, Gun Shows, Memphis, Joe Lieberman, Election 2008, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Tonight, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will debate each other in a town hall at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. This time, unlike...

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Right-Wing TN Church Shooter is Fan of O'Reilly, Hannity, Savage

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Jim David Adkisson, Unitarian Universalist Church, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Liberals, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Jim Adkisson, Tennessee, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church, Tennessee Church Shooting, Media News
Jonathan Kim

Now the right will claim that it is the left that is hateful and violent and that the left is "just as bad" or worse. To that I say: Prove it. If liberals are truly more violent than conservatives, this should be an easy task.

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The Knoxville Church Shooting: We've Been Here Before

Paul Helmke | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church, Gun Violence, Knoxville Church Killings, Colorado Church Shooting, Unitarian Church Shooting, Tennessee, Guns, Politics News
Paul Helmke

If we don't have the laws to help keep firearms from a man like this, then clearly we are not doing enough in this country to keep dangerous weapons from dangerous people.

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Ten. Dems Blame Fox News And GOP For Their Own Skewed Perceptions Of Obama

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Tennessee, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Fred Hobbs, Home News
Dawn Teo

Tennessee Democratic leaders, apologizing for stating their belief that Obama was tied to terrorists, laughably place blame on the message machinery of the right.

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