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"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.
J.S. McDougall | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green
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.
Yahoo! Finance | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green
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...
Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green
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.
Mother Nature Network | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green
Three days before Christmas, a billion gallons of liquefied coal ash poured out through a broken retaining wall, inundating fifteen homes, covering hu...
Dave Cooper | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green
The coal industry doesn't want any regulation on coal waste, because it would hurt their corporate profits.
Rob Perks | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
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.
Erin Brockovich and Robin Greenwald | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green
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.
switchboard.nrdc.org | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green
That massive spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Kingston Fossil Plant, which flooded over 400 acres with 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ...
knoxnews.com | Ron Clayton News@knoxnews.com | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green
The Tennessee Valley Authority was found in violation of the state's Water Quality Control Act of 1977 after sludge from the No. 3 Ocoee Dam was relea...
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nation's largest public utility said Monday tests showed slightly elevated levels of contaminants in the Tennessee River ...
AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
AP reports on a second TVA spill: The Tennessee Valley Authority says a waste pond at its Widows Creek power plant in northeast Alabama has ruptured ...
David Sassoon | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
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.
Carl Pope | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green
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.
AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 01.27.2009 | Green
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities need to more strongly warn residents that muck left from a major coal-ash spill in eastern Tennessee could pose h...
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Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green