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onearth.org - 1/8/2009
Senate Hearing Today on Tennessee Sludge Spill
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Big day of reckoning for TVA in the wake of the coal ash sludge disaster that we've been following closely here on Greenlight. Senator Barbara Boxer convened a Senate hearing to figure out what went wrong and how to avoid similar catastrophes in the future. The hearing comes on the heels of a ...
topics.nytimes.com - 1/2/2009
Environmental Protection Agency - The New York Times
— topics.nytimes.com — News about the Environmental Protection Agency, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.... ARTICLES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Newest First | Oldest First Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ... (more) Environmental Protection Agency - The New York Times

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TVA Coal Ash Spill Emory River Tennessee (video)
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youtube.com - 1/2/2009
TVA Coal Ash Spill Emory River Tennessee (video)
— youtube.com — Sandra Diaz, National Field Coordinator for Appalachian Voices, Hurricane Creekeeper John Wathen and Watauga Riverkeeper Donna Lisenby... paddle up the Clinch a... (more) TVA Coal Ash Spill Emory River Tennessee (video)

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bloomberg.com - 1/3/2009
Coal-Sludge Risks Disputed as a Tennessee Mayor Sips the Water
— bloomberg.com — Coal-Sludge Risks Disputed as a Tennessee Mayor Sips the Water By Mark Clothier Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) --... The mayor of Kingston, Tennessee, drank from a cup of tap water to quell a dispute over danger from a billion-gallon spill of waste at the local coal ... (more) Coal-Sludge Risks Disputed as a Tennessee Mayor Sips the ...

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Switchboard, from NRDC:  Sen. Boxer Jabs TVA Over Coal Ash Spill

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Sen. Boxer Jabs TVA Over Coal Ash Spill
Switchboard, from NRDC — I just returned from a Congressional hearing convened by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to address the big coal ash spill last month in Tennessee.  As tee'd up by Ben Jervey on NRDC's Greenlight blog, this hearing follows a damning New York Times story yesterday exposing how power plant waste lagoons all over the country are not subject to federal hazardous waste standards.  Astoundingly, landfills that hold household waste are more regulated than these coal ash waste dumps, which contain toxic ...

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Before and After the Coal Ash Disaster
onearth.org 1/13/2009 — As a result of a 1.1 billion gallon spill of contaminated fly ash., there has been discussion, press reportage and blogging about the environmental disaster in eastern Tennessee Most of us have seen the pictures - - a 300+ acre area strewn with ...
Gillian Caldwell: Tennessee Coal Sludge Disaster: Think This Could Not Happen to You? Think Again. — Green on HuffingtonPost.com
On December 22 (2 weeks ago), over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge came cascading through Eastern Tennessee. The tidal wave of sludge toppled houses and dirtied rivers and streams. This toxic coal ash has been stored in an open 40-acre pond ...