Groups challenge discharge of heavy metals from TVA’s Kingston Plant into Clinch River

Groups challenge TVA river discharge from plant

Property owner near TVA ash spill says contaminants have his wife’s eyes swollen shut

Property owner near TVA ash spill ‘living in hell’

Scrubber to clean emissions, add to waste stream at TVA Kingston coal plant

TVA prepares to start smokestack scrubbers

TVA planning to change to dry coal ash storage in wake of spill from a retention pond in Tenn.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —The Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing to convert all of its coal waste and gypsum operations to dry storage in the wake of a massive ash spill from a retention pond last year in Tennessee, a TVA official said Monday.

Inspector general: TVA lawyers limited $3M report on cause of Tenn. ash spill

WASHINGTON — The head of the Tennessee Valley Authority acknowledged a “larger cultural problem” at the agency as an inspector general’s report says it allowed its lawyers to stifle a $3 million study into the cause of a massive coal ash spill to limit its legal liability.

Consultants hired by TVA after spill find widespread problems with utility’s coal ash storage

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Consultants hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority after a major coal ash spill found widespread problems with how the nation’s largest public utility runs and maintains its coal ash storage operations, the consultants said in a report issued Tuesday.

TVA consultants find coal ash storage program lacks procedures, training, communication

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Consultants hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority after a disastrous coal ash spill found widespread problems with how the nation’s largest public utility is running and maintaining its coal ash storage operations.

Iowa trucker dies after being crushed by load of pipe at TVA coal ash spill site in Tenn.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An Iowa truck driver died Monday after being crushed by a load of pipe he was delivering to the cleanup site of a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee, authorities said.

H2-WHOA! Australian town bans sale of bottled water, hopes rest of world will follow suit

SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country — and possibly the world — to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.

Report: Dikes at TVA plant on ‘verge of failure’ before spill unleashed toxic sludge in Tenn.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The earthen dikes supporting a huge coal ash landfill at a Tennessee power plant were “on the verge of failure” long before they collapsed and sent tons of toxic muck into a river and lakeside community, an engineering consultant said Thursday.

Cleanup slogs along 6 months after coal ash sludge sloshed across lakeside community in Tenn.

HARRIMAN, Tenn. — Glen Daugherty watches from his wooden dock, just beyond his prized pontoon boat, as a floating dredging machine growls from across the channel of the Emory River.

Report cites emergency communications, media errors, delayed victim response after ash spill

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Emergency crews’ response to a massive coal ash spill last year was hampered by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s failure to adopt emergency communication procedures recommended by the federal government, the public utility’s internal auditors said late Tuesday.

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