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Enough coal ash slurry to fill 800 Olympic swimming pools swallowed a town in 2008, carrying toxins, sickness and bitter ...
Inside the largest industrial spill in American history. How coal ash ruined one Tennessee town—and why it could happen again.
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Officials from the Tennessee Valley Authority and state regulators appeared at a congressional hearing Thursday to answer questions about December 2008's devastating coal-ash spill in Kingston ...
Crews Toil To Clean Up Tennessee Coal Ash Spill Residents of Kingston, Tenn., surveyed the altered landscape surrounding their homes Friday as work crews labored to contain one of the largest coal ...
Tennessee spill revives coal ash controversy A dike break released more than 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic sludge and put rivers downstream at risk.
Tennessee Coal Ash Spill Journalist Jared Sullivan recounted the day of December 22, 2008, when more than a billion gallons of coal ash covered hundreds of acres in the Kingston, Tennessee, region ...
From the archives: A massive coal ash spill turned a Tennessee town into an "apocalyptic moonscape," Lesley Stahl reported in 2009 ...
How coal ash is defined will determine whether the Kingston coal ash workers have a shot in their lawsuit over illnesses they've suffered.
What may be the nation's largest spill of coal ash lay thick and largely untouched over hundreds of acres of land and waterways Wednesday after a dam broke this week, as officials and ...
Hickman was one of hundreds of workers who cleaned up the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston coal ash spill after a dike holding back a pond of coal waste broke on Dec. 22, 2008, releasing 5. ...