On December 22, 2008, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston coal-fired power plant spilled more than one billion gallons of wet coal fly ash over 300 acres near Harriman, TN. The spill destroyed...
Jason Mynatt, a narcotics detective for Roane County, Tennessee, can attest to the fact that the ash from the December 22nd retention pond break, at TVA’s Kingston Steam Plant, is still posing problems for the...
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" By Michael Collins (Contact) Originally published 01:52 p.m., January 12, 2009Updated 06:02 p.m., January 12, 2009 WASHINGTON - A key U.S. senator said Monday she is preparing a resolution that will call on the federal government to regulate coal fly-ash ponds across the...
A week after a nasty sludge spill in Kingston, Tennessee, there are still numerous safety concerns surrounding the incident. There was enough sludge from the coal ash spill to fill 1,660 Olympic-size swimming pools...
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It’s all the talk locally, “How could the dike holding a pond of coal ash monitored by TVA just break?” A large part of a holding-pond some 40 acres in size, and nearly 20 feet deep just pushed away its...
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