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1 Jun 2022, 10:59 am
I have been covering a case in the Eastern District of Tennessee brought by workers alleging injuries sustained during the cleanup of a massive coal ash spill in 2008. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 4:42 am
Anila Yoganathan of the Knoxville News Sentinel has been covering the lawsuits filed by workers who cleaned up a coal ash site in eastern Tennessee following a spill in 2008. [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 12:33 pm
The post Federal appeals court overturns Tennessee coal ash cleanup order appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
11 May 2009, 1:00 pm
EPA signed an enforceable agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to oversee the removal of coal ash at the TVA Kingston Fossil Fuel Plant in Roane County, TN, where more than five million cubic yards of coal ash spilled. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 8:52 am
In 2008, a dike failure at the Kingston Fossil Fuel Plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority released 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash sludge from an 84-acre containment pond onto an area of approximately 300 acres. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 7:16 pm
A billion gallons of coal ash sludge can flood more than 3000 acres one foot deep, according to the New York Times, "Tennessee Ash Flood Larger Than Initially Estimated. [read post]
25 Oct 2015, 5:04 pm
Many of these sites lack adequate safeguards, leaving nearby communities at risk from potential large-scale disasters like the massive coal ash spill in Tennessee in 2008, and from gradual yet equally dangerous contamination as coal ash toxins seep into drinking water sources or are blown into nearby communities. [read post]
24 May 2023, 3:05 pm
I have written several times before about a complex case in Tennessee involving the cleanup of coal ash after a massive spill in December 2008. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 10:39 am
Three years ago, the rupture of a coal ash pond in Kingston, Tennessee sent 5.4 million cubic yards of a toxic slurry into neighborhoods and the Emory River. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 9:14 am
Related Blog Posts Trucking Company Seeks to Avoid Personal Injury Lawsuit Based on Release that Injured Man Thought Pertained to Property Damage Only Tennessee Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment in Railroad Worker’s Injury Case The post Federal Court in East Tennessee Orders Coal Company to Pay 20% “Additional Compensation” Due to Failure to Make Timely Payments in Black Lung Case appeared first on Tennessee Injury Attorney Blog. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 9:14 am
Related Blog Posts Trucking Company Seeks to Avoid Personal Injury Lawsuit Based on Release that Injured Man Thought Pertained to Property Damage Only Tennessee Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment in Railroad Worker’s Injury Case The post Federal Court in East Tennessee Orders Coal Company to Pay 20% “Additional Compensation” Due to Failure to Make Timely Payments in Black Lung Case appeared first on Tennessee Injury Attorney Blog. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 3:12 pm
The District Court has ordered the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to excavate huge quantities of coal ash waste generated over many years by the TVA’s coal-fired power plant located in Gallatin, Tennessee, and adjacent to the Cumberland River. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 6:39 am
The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 10:02 am
The most notorious event occured on December 22, 2008, when a CCR surface impoundment was breached at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee which released 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 5:27 am
He is consistent in his fealty to coal. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 6:32 pm
At least two suits have been filed so far, with several more being threatened, in the wake of the December 22 coal-ash spill at an eastern Tennessee TVA power plant. [read post]
26 Dec 2014, 9:00 am
"This rule is a huge step forward in our effort to protect communities from coal ash storage impoundment failures as well as the improper management and disposal of coal ash in general," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told reporters.The agency first proposed rules governing coal ash storage in 2010, in the wake of a massive spill at a ruptured holding pond in Tennessee that has cost more than $1 billion to clean up. [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 10:33 am
After the recent news of a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee, Gitte Laasby and Erik Potter of the Gary... [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 8:14 am
Updating this long list of ILB entries on coal ash, retention ponds, and the massive spill in Tennessee last December,... [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 11:59 am
The Tennessee Valley Authority today agreed to spend billions of dollars to settle Environment Protection Agency charges that it violated the Clean Air Act at 11 coal-fired power plants in Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee. [read post]
