Enough coal ash slurry to fill 800 Olympic swimming pools swallowed a town in 2008, carrying toxins, sickness and bitter ...

The implosion of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Bull Run Fossil Plant marks a transition to clean energy for utility.

When Xcel Energy stopped burning coal at its Valmont Power Station in 2017, it left 1.6 million tons of toxic coal ash on the ...

Consumers Energy will close its last coal-fired power plant on Lake Michigan in 2025. The toxic ash left behind could be used in construction across the state for years to come.

Some may remember the December 2008 catastrophic failure of ash ponds at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in the eastern part of the state. In that instance, a dike ruptured releasing 1.1 ...

On Dec. 22, 2008, a retention pond containing coal ash failed and dumped billions of gallons in a nearby water system, kicking off a controversial cleanup effort.

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 ...

Coal ash spill made workers sick and helped force TVA to stop burning coal according to new book. The coal ash disaster at TVA's Kingston Coal Plant in 2008, help push the utility to close its ...

KINGSTON, Tenn. (WTVF) — Janie Clark and Betty Johnson said coal ash killed their husbands. Ansol Clark and Tommy Johnson were some of the first to respond to the Tennessee Valley Authority's ...

On Dec. 22, 2008, a major dike failure occurred on the north slopes of the ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Kingston Fossil Plant. The ...

In the Kingston coal ash spill and nearly 15 years of lawsuits that followed, Jared Sullivan, a journalist from Franklin, Tennessee, saw a David and Goliath story that was quintessentially American.

Mobile Baykeeper has long argued that a dam breach akin to the 2008 Kingston, Tennessee, disaster, or the 2014 Dan River coal ash spill in North Carolina would be catastrophic.