Congressional Research Service Report Shows Little Change in State Programs if Congress Had Its Way By Erin Burks Red, White and Water intern, Summer 2012 Transportation bill negotiations between the House and Senate came to a close on June 29…
Blog Archives
Storage of TVA Coal Ash Waste Leads to Civil Rights Lawsuit
December 22 marked the three-year anniversary of the disastrous coal ash spill at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant. Residents of the damaged Swan Pond community are still struggling with the impacts of relocation and pollution. But the toxic effects…
Proposed Coal Ash Regulations Weaker than Household Waste Laws
Nearly three years after the Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash disaster spilled over a billion gallons of toxic sludge into the Emory River in Harriman, Tenn., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set to finalize guidelines regulating coal ash ponds.…
TAGS: Appalachian politics Arsenic cancer Coal Ash coal ash health effects coal ash ponds coal ash slurry Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act EPA Lake Michigan Mining Jobs senate bill 1751 TVA Kingston coal ash spill We Energies coal plant Wisconsin
Who Cares About Coal Ash? “Have A Sip, Take a Dip, Eat Some Fish”
Yesterday, we wrote about a bluff containing coal ash pond breaking, allowing a football field chunk of debris into Lake Michigan. According to a We Energies spokesman “it is probable that some of the material that washed into the lake…
Dangerous Coal Ash Ponds Extremely Common
There should be zero “significant” hazard coal ash ponds in the United States. The catastrophic collapse of TVA’s Kingston coal ash pond should be a one-time event. Congress should be fighting to protect citizens from another spill. Unfortunately, there are…
Heath Shuler and Others Who Stood Up Against Dangerous Coal Ash Legislation
Today, Congressmen Heath Shuler (NC), David Price (NC), Mel Watt (NC), Brad Miller (NC), John Yarmuth (KY), Gerry Connolly (VA) and Frank Wolf (VA) voted against H.R. 2273 , the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, a bill that does…
TAGS: Clean Water Act Coal Ash Congress Electric Utilities Kentucky North Carolina Politics TVA Kingston coal ash spill Virginia
Tell Congress We Can’t Afford The Status Quo on Coal Ash!
This Friday, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 2273, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, a bill that puts the profits of coal ash polluters above public health. H.R. 2273 subverts public support of the EPA’s proposed…
TAGS: Clean Water Act Coal Coal Ash Congress Electric Utilities Environment Health Kentucky North Carolina Politics Science and Nature Tennessee TVA Kingston coal ash spill Water Pollution West Virginia
A Cup of Arsenic in the Morning Does a Body…Good?
In what some folks would call the “no-duh” factor, the TVA has found contaminated groundwater near some of their coal fired power plant coal ash sites. Following the 2008 coal ash disaster at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tenn.,…
Great Film on the TVA Coal Ash Spill Disaster Two Years Later
In September, 2010 I traveled back to Harriman, Tennessee to meet the Blue Planet Expedition crew and our research partners at the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute to tell the story of the TVA coal ash spill disaster two and half…
TAGS: Alexadra Cousteau Appalachian Voices Coal Coal Ash Emory River Expedition Blue Planet TVA Kingston coal ash spill Upper Watuaga Riverkeeper Water Pollution Waterkeeper Waterkeeper Alliance
Coal Ash Cleanup Effort Comes in Phases
Story by Sarah Vig “A clean-up can either be done right or it can be a ticking time bomb,” California Senator Barbara Boxer cautioned TVA CEO Tom Kilgore during the Environment and Public Works committee’s oversight hearing on the recent…
