A nitric acid plant in a rural corner of Greene County, Tennessee has leaked chemicals into the air and water several times ...

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 ...

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 ...

The coal ash disaster at TVA's Kingston Coal Plant in 2008 help push the utility to close its coal plants. It will stop burning coal in 2035.

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 failure resulted in the release of ...

On February 2, 2014, a stormwater pipe underneath the ash basin broke, sending 39,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of ash pond water into the Dan River. The spill ultimately led to ...

In 2008, a dike containing toxic coal ash ruptured at the Tennessee Valley Authority's coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant releasing over 1 billion gallons of coal ash.

Attorneys for a group of workers who believe their jobs cleaning up a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee led to a slew of illnesses, including fatal cancers, have reached a settlement with the ...

NASHVILLE, TENN. — A burst dike at a coal-fired power plant in eastern Tennessee spilled millions more cubic yards of ash than originally estimated, officials said Friday, and residents fear the ...

Coal ash contains a slew of toxic elements. The Tennessee Supreme Court is weighing the latest effort to block the workers’ cases.