May 12, 2009 -
The Tennessee Valley Authority has begun shipping toxic coal ash from the massive spill that occurred last December at its Kingston power plant in east Tennessee's Roane County to landfills in the neighboring states of Georgia and Alabama as part of a tes
May 12, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest
May 11, 2009 -
The Washington Post recently called Facing South "fantastic." This month, The Nation prais
May 10, 2009 -
Today is the 101st anniversary of Mother's Day as we know it. Over at Beliefnet, popular religion scholar Diana Butler Bass reminds us of the progressive origins of Mother's Day, which started with a Virginia native Anna Jarvis, daughter of a Southern social activist: Anna Jarvis intended the new holiday to honor all mothersbeginning with her own -- Anna Reeves Jarvis, who had died in 1905. Although now largely forgotten, Anna
May 8, 2009 -
