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TVA Would Rather Not Hear From You About The Coal Spill

switchboard.nrdc.org | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee Coal Sludge, Water, Tennessee Coal Ash, Coal Spill Victims, Pollution, Tva, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

Turns out that this public agency -- the Tennessee Valley Authority -- is not at all interested in hearing from the public. Yesterday morning, NRDC i...

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Will Coal Spill Victims Be OK? "No One Can Give Me An Answer"

knoxnews.com | Matt Lakin | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Coal Spill Victims, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tva, Green News

"When you're living in it, you want to know if you're going to be OK," she said. "That's been my question all along, and no one can give me an answer....

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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

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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"Public Nuisance" Argument Pushes Pollution Debate Into Spotlight

AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Pollution, Environment, Coal, Energy, Tva, Public Nuisance Case, Energy Policy, Green News

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's victory forcing a major utility to control emissions from coal-fired power plants outside the state's borders s...

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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

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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Tennessee Demands Details On TVA Coal Sludge Cleanup

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Tva, Phil Bredesen, Tennesee Coal Spill, Coal, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, TVA Cleanup, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tom Kilgore, Environment, Pollution, Green News

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The state of Tennessee demanded answers and cooperation Tuesday from the nation's largest public utility in the aftermath of ...

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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

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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Group Calls On TVA To Cover Spill Victims' Medical Costs

switchboard.nrdc.org | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spill, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Ocoee River Sludge Dump, Waterboarding, Pollution, Coal, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Ocoee River, Green News

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 ...

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TVA Found In Violation Of Tennessee Water Quality Act

knoxnews.com | Ron Clayton News@knoxnews.com | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spill, Clean Coal, Water, Tennessee Water Quality Act, Environment, Ocoee River Sludge Dump, Pollution, Tva, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Ocoee River, Green News

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...

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Two Spills Rattle Public's Faith In Tennessee Valley Authority

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spills, Environment, Tva, Pollution, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

STEVENSON, Ala. — Standing on a porch near the Widows Creek power plant Saturday, Charlie Cookston took a drag off a cigarette and ticked off th...

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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

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

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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Another TVA Ash Spill

A. Siegel | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Widows Creek, Pollution, Coal, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Video, Green News

For Christmas, rather than Clean Coal carolers, too many in Tennessee were serenaded with evacuation notices and concerns about drinking water due to the massive Kingston ash pond rupture.

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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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SECOND TVA SPILL: Dam Breaks At Alabama Coal Plant

AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Byproducts, Water Pollutants, Water, Alabama, Tva, Coal Spill, Pollution, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Widows Creek Waste, Alabama Coal Spill, Tva Widows Creek Plant, Second Tva Spill, Tva Spill Alabama, TVA Spill, Green News

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 ...

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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

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

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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Rep. Zach Wamp Calls Tennessee Spill "Katrina-Like"

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee Coal Spill, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee Coal Sludge, Coal, Tom Kilgore, Zach Wamp, Green News

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats said Thursday they want stricter rules for toxic ash from coal-fired power plants following a massive spill in Ten...

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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

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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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, Will Testify Before Congress Over "Exaggerated Deference"

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 02.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Tom Kilgore, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, Exaggerated Deference, Environment, Bob Corker, Tva, Pollution, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tom Kilgore Testimony, Tva Ceo, Green News

The major coal ash spill in Roane County, Tenn., which destroyed homes and has poisoned and gummed up portions of the Emory River, will get more natio...

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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

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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Exxon Valdez Survivor To Tennessee Coal Sludge Victims: Get Everything In Writing

Riki Ott | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee Coal Ash, Water, Pollution, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Exxon Valdez, Tennessee Coal Spill, Green News

Open letter to Tennessee communities harmed by the coal ash spill By Riki Ott CORDOVA, Alaska -- I am sorry for your losses. These simple words wer...

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Nature Has a Way with Black Swans

Harry Fuller | Posted 02.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Environment, Depression, Climate Change, Solar Energy Projects, Environment, Tva, Air Pollution, Pollution, Stimulus, Global Warming, Economy, Green News

How the money's spent matters not just because the "stimulus" might work or fail... It matters because we're despoiling the planet at an ever greater rate and we don't have a replacement.

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FEDS AGREE: Too Much Arsenic In Tennessee Coal Spill Water

AP | Posted 02.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Arsenic, Water, Environment, Tennessee Coal Sludge, Kingston Tennessee, Pollution, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee Coal Spill, Green News