coal ash

Environment

Coal ash contamination imperils July 4 festival goers in Tennessee

By Sue Sturgis

July 3, 2009 - The city of Kingston, Tenn.

Environment

EPA releases locations of high-hazard coal ash dumps; most are in the South

By Sue Sturgis

June 30, 2009 - After initially saying it would not release the information due to "security concerns," the Environmental Protection Agency relented Monday and disclosed the locations of the nation's 44 "high hazard" coal ash dump sites.

Environment

Was the Tennessee coal ash disaster really a once-in-a-lifetime event?

By Sue Sturgis

June 26, 2009 - A new report from an engineering firm hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority identified factors behind last year's disaster that unleashed more than a billion of gallons of toxic ash from a massive storage pond at the federal company's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee.

Environment

Audit finds Tennessee Valley Authority misled on ash spill disaster

By Sue Sturgis

June 18, 2009 - The Tennessee Valley Authority's Inspector General released

Environment

POWER POLITICS: EPA refuses to reveal dangerous coal ash waste sites

By Sue Sturgis

June 15, 2009 - Around the United States today, there are 44 coal ash waste di

Environment

INVESTIGATION: Do dirty coal plants make us more vulnerable to swine flu?

By Sue Sturgis

June 10, 2009 - Scientists have discovered that exposure to a common pollutant may make people more likely to experience severe symptoms from swine flu -- and it's a pollutant emitted in large quantities by coal-burning power plants and other industrial facilities.

Pa. rejected TVA's spilled coal ash as too contaminated

By Sue Sturgis

May 18, 2009 - Some of the more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash that spilled from an impoundment at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee last December is making its way to landfills in poor and black communities in Alabama and Georgia,

Dumping in Dixie: TVA sends toxic coal ash to poor black communities in Georgia and Alabama

By Sue Sturgis

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

Environment

Bush administration hid coal ash dumps' true cancer threat

By Sue Sturgis

May 8, 2009 -

Environment

POWER POLITICS: Satyagraha for the climate

By Sue Sturgis

April 20, 2009 - Today marks an important moment in the intensifying political battle ov