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Coal Ash On 60 Minutes: Lax Coal Ash Recycling Practices "An Outrage" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Lisa Jackson, Coal Ash Recycling, 60 Minutes, Epa, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Toxins, Coal Ash Filler, Coal Ash Spill, TVA Disaster, Coal, Green News

Lesley Stahl on Sunday's 60 Minutes did an in-depth look at the problems with the by-products of coal production, commonly known as coal ash. Coal ash...

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Poverty Near The "High Hazard" Coal Ash Sites

Bruce Nilles | Posted 08.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Environment, Coal, TVA Disaster, Sierra Club, Coal Ash, Home News
Bruce Nilles

The public's right-to-know scored a victory this week when the Environmental Protection Agency finally released the list of the 44 coal ash sites deemed "high hazard."

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Rep. Hechler to President Obama: Time for a Harry S. Truman Moment in the Coalfields

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Harry S. Truman, Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Coal Sludge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Barack Obama, Mountaintop Removal, Congress, TVA Disaster, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Standing at the Massey Energy mountaintop removal operation last month, the 94-year-old Hechler showed no sign of retreating on this egregious violation of human rights and the environment.

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

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

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 05.04.2009 | Green

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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Three Lessons We Still Haven't Learned 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

J.S. McDougall | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spill, Oil Spill, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Oil, Exxon Profits, TVA Disaster, Exxon Valdez, Dr. Riki Ott, Exxon Valdez Anniversary, Cordova/Alaska, Green News
J.S. McDougall

Take a 10 minute break today, on the anniversary of one of the most tragic--and still unresolved--environmental disasters of our modern energy age to reflect on three lessons.

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Describing the Devastation of Mountaintop Mining

Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Fertility, Animals, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Mountains, Trees, Mountaintop Removal, Grass, Tennessee, Topsoil, Kentucky, Coal Mining, TVA Spill, Toxic, Clean Coal, Carbon Emissions, Nrdc, Environmentalism, Winter, Tva, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bush Administration, Mining, Tennessee Coal Spill, Land, Environment, TVA Disaster, Valleys, Green News
Peter Lehner

We also need to cap carbon and make coal pay its true price so that clean energy can compete with it. NRDC will be working on all of that.

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Coal Waste in Rep. Nick Joe Rahall's Water

Dave Cooper | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Prenter, Coal Ash, Mountaintop Removal, Tva, Slurry, Rawl, Coal Waste, Rahall, TVA Spill, Poverty, US Poverty, Big Coal, West Virginia, Coal, TVA Coal, Unsafe Drinking Water, Video, Tennessee, Water, Environment, Kentucky, TVA Disaster, Green News
Dave Cooper

The coal industry doesn't want any regulation on coal waste, because it would hurt their corporate profits.

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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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Coal is Dirty From Start to Finish

Sandra Diaz | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Alternative Energy, Activism, Renewable Energy, Coal Ash Spill, Green Energy, Coal, Energy Policy, Energy, Paul Hawken, TVA Disaster, Tva, Us Energy Policy, 100 Days, Green News
Sandra Diaz

If the mining of coal is dirty, the burning of coal is dirty, and the waste left over from burning and processing coal is dirty, what's the solution?

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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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New Media Keeping Coal Ash Spill from Drowning in the Muck (VIDEO)

Sandra Diaz | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Energy, Citizen Journalism, Big Coal, Tennessee Coal Spill, Waterkeeper Alliance, Environment, Spill, New Media, TVA Disaster, Appalachian Voices, Coal, Tva, TVA Kingston, Video, Green News
Sandra Diaz

Volunteer organizations and individuals were largely responsible helping inject this disaster into the national media. I am hopeful we will see even more examples of this new media from the impacted residents.

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Household Trash is Managed Better Than The TVA's Coal Ash

Frances Beinecke | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, EPA Rules, Epa, Clean Coal, Coal Industry, Big Coal, Coal Ash, Drinking Water, Tva, TVA Disaster, TVA Kingston, Toxins, Coal Ash Pollution, Contaminated Groundwater, Contaminated Drinking Water, Green News
Frances Beinecke

While your municipal government does a good job of handling your trash, the Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect Americans from hazardous waste. Coal ash fits the bill.

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The True Face of Mean Coal

David Sassoon | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Mean Coal, Global Warming, Tennessee Coal Ash, Clean Coal, TVA Spill, Big Coal, The New York Times, New York Times, TVA Disaster, Coal, Coal Mining, TVA Coal, Tva, Green News
David Sassoon

There are 1300 hundred dumps across the country similar to the one in Tennessee. It's become painfully clear yet again that there's no such thing as clean coal, just Mean Coal.

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Who Got Coal in Their Stockings?

Carl Pope | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spill, TVA Disaster, Dynegy, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Coal, Ls Power, Green News
Carl Pope

The massive... spill of coal ash at the Kingston Power plant in Tennessee devastated homes, covered hundreds of acres, and threatens rivers, wildlife, and drinking-water sources.

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A Lump of Coal in America's Stocking

Lisa Derrick | Posted 01.24.2009 | Home

Read More: TVA Disaster, Tennesse Coal Spill, Environment, Clean Coal, Coal, Home News
Lisa Derrick

The Environmental Protection agency has dispatched one investigator to investigate the nation's largest spill of coal ash. The disaster, spread over 2...

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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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Ash Christmas: Yesterday's TVA Coal Disaster is Toxic Wake Up Call to Nation

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Carol Browner, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Environment, Stephen Chu, Coal Ash, Cancer, TVA Disaster, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Coal ash contains mercury, lead, and arsenic. Nearly 800 Olympic-size swimming pools of that toxic mix are flowing into the waterways of Tennessee right now.

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