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28 Apr 2014, 10:35 am by Rob McKinney
Further, there is one election in West Virginia that was bought and paid for by a coal mine operator. [read post]
3 Oct 2018, 9:53 am by Mark Hartsoe
This was because the plaintiffs had shown that they were exposed to a large amount of coal and fly ash yet were not allowed to wear protection from these potentially dangerous substances. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 6:00 pm by Jeff Lorenzo
The other states are Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 11:36 pm by Jon Gelman
Today's post was shared by FairWarning and comes from www.fairwarning.org Settlement calls for Alpha Natural Resources to clean up water flowing from coal mines in five states. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 4:49 am
The Tennessee Valley Authority decided in August to add a $2.5-billion unit to a nuclear power plant rather than construct a new coal facility -- the other main option -- because of the uncertain economics. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The TVA built hydroelectric dams and several coal-fired power plants to produce electricity. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 8:45 am
It means worrying about the safety of that coal ash — the very same coal ash that catastrophically leaked out of a Tennessee facility in 2008 and destroyed the surrounding environment before it was hurriedly redirected to Uniontown. [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 8:06 am
The officials announced that they are taking "unprecedented steps" to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop coal mining in the six Appalachian states of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia through a coordinated approach between U.S. [read post]
14 Feb 2004, 10:55 am
The EPA and the US Justice Department joined Friday in asking the US Supreme Court to allow the EPA to order the Tennessee Valley Authority, the country's largest public utility, to clean up its coal-fired power plants. [read post]
21 May 2014, 6:23 am by Julie Ferguson
On a recent visit, we came upon a heartfelt letter from miner Jacob Vowell, his last communication before suffocating in the Fraterville Coal Mine in Tennessee. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 5:22 am
Supreme Court could end up deciding how quickly the Tennessee Valley Authority shuts down or upgrades some of its aging coal-fired power plants. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 1:19 pm by Lawyer Sanders
Coal ash was brought prominently to national attention in 2008 when a huge hooking impoundment holding millions of tons disposed ash waste generated by the Tennessee Valley Authority broke open, creating a massive spill in Kingston, TN. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 12:15 pm by Carter Wood
., agreed with the arguments of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's lawsuit that claimed the Tennessee Valley Authority's coal-fired power plants in Tennessee and Alabama created a public nuisance because they harmed the airshed in western North Carolina. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 9:57 am
Many of us across the country and even the residents here in Tennessee expect our counties and states to live up to certain safety expectations. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 7:13 pm by J. Mark Robinette
Certainly, the 2008 retention pond failure in Harriman, Tennessee is not far from the EPA's memory. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 6:40 pm
Independent water quality tests conducted by environmental activists show high levels of arsenic and other toxins in river water near the site of a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee and several miles downstream. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 1:35 pm by Lawyer Sanders
A federal judge threw out lawsuits seeking to financially punish the federal Tennessee Valley Authority for its 2008 spill of toxin-laden coal ash but he will let suits seeking compensatory damages proceed. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 1:43 pm by Silverberg Zalantis LLP
American Electric Power Company, Inc. the plaintiffs claim that the carbon dioxide emissions from these coal burning plants contribute to global warming and should be ultimately reduced. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 11:10 am
On December 22, 2008, there was a major coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, which poured 1.1 billion gallons of toxic material over 300 acres. [read post]