coal
November 3, 2011 -
Soon after the EPA released new data showing the hazards of coal ash ponds, a massive bluff built of coal ash collapsed into Lake Michigan. So why are lawmakers still fighting strict federal oversight of coal ash?
June 4, 2010 -
MAY/JUNE 2010 | Coal ash is the country's second-biggest source of industrial waste and full of arsenic, lead and other toxins -- yet it's routinely dumped near communities with little publicity and few rules. In a week-long investigation, Facing South looks at the growing problem of coal ash and the looming battle in Washington over regulation.
December 9, 2009 -
Attendees of the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen will get a chance to watch a new Google video about the effort to stop mountaintop removal mining on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia and to build a wind farm there instead. The environmental advocates at iLoveMountains.org are asking people to watch the video -- which uses innovative new Google Earth technology -- and send it along to friends and family.
February 24, 2009 -
The Tennessee Valley Authority's board of directors met earlier this month, its first gathering since last
January 14, 2009 -
A federal judge has ordered the Tennessee Valley Authority to clean up pollution from four coal-fired power plan
May 1, 1984 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 12 No. 3, "Painting South." Find more from that issue here.