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

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

Tucked neatly behind the hills and trees of the valley, the plant produces ingredients that are used to manufacture blasting ...

Cenospheres float on top of the Tennessee River on Dec. 30, 2008, after last week coal ash spill at the TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant near Harriman, Tenn. TVA says that the small hollow spheres ...

Millions of yards of ashy sludge broke through a dike at TVA Fossil Plant near Harriman, Tennessee, on Dec. 22, 2008.

The spill drew new attention to the arsenic, mercury, lead and other toxins contained in coal ash.