Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Journalist Jared Sullivan recounted the day of December 22, 2008, when more than a billion gallons of coal ash covered hundreds of acres in the ...

KINGSTON, Tenn — The Tennessee Valley Authority, long respected for providing good jobs and cheap electricity, is facing a growing backlash over its handling of a massive coal ash spill a decade ago, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in 2008 in Tennessee, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision is a victory for hundreds of ...

A civil lawsuit filed earlier this month says there are 180 new cases of workers claiming they contracted illnesses or died from toxic fly ash exposure stemming from cleanup a coal ash spill in ...

Eden, NC - Pictures taken in 2008 show the devastation after the Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash spill. One billion gallons spilled, making it the largest coal ash spill in US history. "It has ...

More than a billion gallons of toxic sludge came crashing into Harriman, Tennessee, in the wee hours of a December morning in 2008. James Schean awoke to a loud clap as wood and glass exploded around ...

Monte Jacobson of West Salem hadn’t heard about the catastrophic Christmas-week coal ash spill in Kingston, Tenn., when I talked with him last week, three days after the spill. He wrote a letter to ...

The utility industry is trying to roll back coal ash regulation passed after the 2008 Kingston disaster, and the EPA is listening. Even if you don’t live next to a coal plant, this could affect you.