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Why the children of Claxton, Tennessee, have a playground built on top of coal ash
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn the hills of East Tennessee, just a half hour outside Knoxville, is a wood-framed playground that...
EPA: Get a grip on half a billion tons of coal ash, including in East Tennessee, lawsuit says
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe coal ash sites – the waste is commonly buried then covered with earth – are dotted throughout...
Tennessee AG joins GOP states’ challenge to new EPA rules requiring power plant pollution controls
Tennessee Lookout via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has joined GOP counterparts in 24 states in challenging...
Fifteen years after coal ash spill, TVA owes us transparency on replacing plant | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSoon, the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors will make a decision about the future of the...
Kingston coal ash families, county officials prepare for 15th anniversary of disaster
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTo mark 15 years since a dike gave way at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant, spilling...
Kingston coal ash settlement: What it means for the cleanup workers who sued
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAttorneys for the Kingston coal ash workers and Jacobs Solutions told Knox News on Tuesday, May 23,...
What is coal ash? Can it harm your health if you're exposed? Experts weigh in
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWhen the sun sets on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s use of coal power plants, it won’t set on the...
Coal ash could be reused anywhere. Here's how government does - and doesn't - regulate it
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoReused coal ash could be anywhere: an East Tennessee playground, ballfields in Ohio, a golf club in...
Environmental groups welcome federal rules requiring TVA to clean up old coal ash dumps
Tennessee Lookout via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMore than a decade after one of the biggest industrial disasters in Tennessee history, the U.S....
Cover it? Move it? What experts suggest could address coal ash at Claxton playground
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFor more than 20 years, the children of Claxton have played on a playground that was built on top of...