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Another TVA Ash Spill

A. Siegel | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green

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

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 01.09.2009 | 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 01.09.2009 | 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, 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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Coal Ash Piling Up Most In Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia And Alabama

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Where Are Coal Ash Piles, Coal Ash Piles, Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, Environment, Kentucky, Coal Ash Spill, Pollution, Coal, Indiana, Green News

WASHINGTON — Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a practice the government has long recognized as...

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VIDEO: Mountaintop Removal

Assignment Earth | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Surface Mining Act, Bush Administration, Mountaintop Removal, Green News, Mining, Clean Water Act, Environment, President Bush, Coal, Green Policy, Green News

New federal mining rules, a parting gift to the coal industry from the Bush administration, will allow mining companies to blast even more mountain pe...

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

Sandra Diaz | Posted 01.08.2009 | 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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Rep. Zach Wamp Calls Tennessee Spill "Katrina-Like"

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 01.08.2009 | 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 01.08.2009 | 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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TVA Board Members' Donations To Lamar Alexander

Nashville Is Talking | Posted 01.08.2009 | 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 01.08.2009 | 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 01.08.2009 | 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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Hundreds Of Coal Ash Dumps Across US Lack Regulation

New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 01.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Ash, Coal Ash Dump Regulation, Coal Ash Spill, Coal, Coal Ash Dumps, Green News

The coal ash pond that ruptured and sent a billion gallons of toxic sludge across 300 acres of East Tennessee last month was only one of more than 1,3...

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Who Got Coal in Their Stockings?

Carl Pope | Posted 01.05.2009 | 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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Tennessee Sludge Spill Community's Future Clouded (SLIDESHOW)

AP | BETH RUCKER | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Tennesee Coal Spill, Coal Industry, Water, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Pollution, Coal, Green News

HARRIMAN, Tenn. -- Tom Grizzard wonders what the future holds for a spot that once seemed the perfect place to live. His pastoral enclave boasted vist...

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Erin Brockovich To Visit Coal Ash Spill Site

Huffington Post | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Erin Brockovich, Erin Brokovich Coal Spill, Pollution, Tva, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA Kingston, Erin Brockovich Tva, Green News

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that Erin Brockovich, the famous environmental advocate and law expert, will be visiting Tennessee to investigate ...

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Tennessee Coal Ash Spill Before And After -- And What's Next

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Coal Industry, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Coal Ash Spill, #Coalash, Tva, Pollution, Coal Spill, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee Coal Spill, Green News

The online environmental community is abuzz with reports of all kinds about the coal ash sludge spill in Tennessee, ranging from first-hand accounts t...

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Coal In West Virginia: "Slowly But Surely They're Killing Us -- Legally"

VBS.tv | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Video, Coal Industry, Water Pollutants, West Virginia, Coal and Health, Mining and Health, Coal, Green News

A toxic coal ash sludge spill in Tennessee ruined land, homes and lives recently, bringing to the fore an inconvenient truth about coal: it's not clea...

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Unintended Consequences

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Endangered Species, Endangered Species and Environment, Coal, Endangered Species Act, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

When the Bush administration decided that it was not going to use the Endangered Species Act to address global warming someone in the bowels of the administration came up with a clever idea.

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Tennesseans With Sludge-Destroyed Property: "Clean Coal Is A Myth" (VIDEO)

AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Tennessee Coal Sludge, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Pollution, Coal, Video, Sludge Pollution Tennessee, Sludge Video, Green News

KINGSTON, Tenn. -- The CEO and president of the nation's largest public utility vowed to clean up a community encased in sludge after a major coal ash...

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A First Hand Account of the TVA Coal Ash Disaster in Kingston, TN

Dave Cooper | Posted 12.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Video, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee, Environment, Coal Ash, TVA Disaster, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, US News, Tva, Environmental Disaster, TVA Kingston, Green News
Dave Cooper

TVA is telling the public not to worry, the water is safe, the coal ash is inert, but officials with TVA and EPA have already lost some credibility with the local residents.

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Coal Ash Spill In Tennessee Much Larger Than Initially Estimated

New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 12.26.2008 | 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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Tennessee Coal Ash Brought Tidings Of Lead, Selenium, Arsenic

New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Contents, Clean Coal, Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Green News

Federal studies have long shown coal ash to contain significant quantities of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and selenium, which can cause cancer and...

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A Lump of Coal in America's Stocking

Lisa Derrick | Posted 12.25.2008 | 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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My Letter to the Other Santa Claus

Javier Sierra | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Latinos, Appalachia, Clean Slate, Solar Energy, Sierra Club, Wind Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Santa Claus, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Environment, Obama Transition, Obama, Geothermal Energy, Clean Energy, Hispanics, Green Energy, Power Plants, Coal, Global Warming, Green News
Javier Sierra

Dear President-Elect Obama: The legacy that awaits you under the White House chimney resembles more a lump of coal than a welcome present, which leads me to my first wish for you.

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Why We're Already Beginning To Solve Global Warming

Carl Pope | Posted 12.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Energy, Carbon, 2030, Eia, Coal, Home News
Carl Pope

Washington, D.C. -- The world just got a wonderful winter solistice present: the Energy Information Agency (EIA), the official U.S. government scoreke...

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