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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.
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 ...
It was the nation's worst coal ash spill. Ten years later, workers say the spill at the TVA Kingston Fossil Fuel Power Plant was also the deadliest — for them.
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 ...
Workers who cleaned up a huge spill from a coal ash pond in Tennessee in 2008 are still suffering—and dying. The U.S. has 1,400 ash dumps.
Dear EarthTalk: What were the environmental impacts of the huge coal ash spill in Tennessee this past December?-- Dave S, Lynnfield, MA Environmentalists’ call for an end to the age of coal ...
Congress held hearings in the aftermath of the 2008 spill%3B the EPA proposed new rules But coal ash remains largely unregulated Some utilities have recognized the need to make changes HARRIMAN ...
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.
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.