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December 2, 2009 - A new report from Environment America finds that the nation's power plants are dirty as well as old -- and that those two characteristics tend to go hand in hand.

November 25, 2009 - A dam collapse at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee l

November 23, 2009 - Pollution from coal is not only unhealthy for the environment -- it als

November 10, 2009 - A civil lawsuit

November 10, 2009 - Environmental and public health watchdogs have vowed to increase their scrutiny of the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement in the wake of the Senate's approval last week of President Obama's controversial choice to head the agency.

November 3, 2009 - The U.S.

October 22, 2009 - The U.S.

October 14, 2009 - Since a dam burst at its Kingston coal-fired power plant last December and

October 7, 2009 - An in-depth review of monitoring data from coal ash ponds located next to 13 coal-burning power plants in North Carolina has revealed that all of them are contaminating groundwater with toxic metals and other pollutants -- in some cases at levels exceeding 380 times state groundwater standards.