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EPA rule would force clean-up of toxic coal ash dumped in landfills, ponds near power plants
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening a rule aimed at controlling and cleaning up...
EPA wants to expand coal ash rule. Here's what it adds to protect disposal site neighbors
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Environmental Protection Agency plans to expand its federal coal ash rule to apply to hundreds...
Tommy Johnson, one of the Kingston cleanup workers who sued over coal ash exposure, dies
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTommy Johnson, one of the workers at the center of lawsuits over the Kingston coal ash spill, died...
Kingston coal ash families, county officials prepare for 15th anniversary of disaster
Gannett via AOL· 6 months agoTo mark 15 years since a dike gave way at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant, spilling...
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...
Duke's Sutton coal plant closed in 2013, but most of the ash is still there. Is that bad?
Star News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoBumping along the shoreline of Sutton Lake looking to avoid running over any submerged tree trunks...
What’s next for Chapel Hill’s police headquarters and the coal ash buried beneath it
Raleigh News and Observer via AOL· 1 year agoChapel Hill is moving forward with plans to build a new police station and town offices — another...
'A unique application': TVA takes $216M first step toward turning coal ash sites into solar farms
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Tennessee Valley Authority took its first step toward turning its coal ash landfills into solar...
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...
IndyStar investigation: Error in Pines coal ash cleanup plan put residents' health at risk
Gannett via AOL· 4 weeks agoFederal officials are looking into a northern Indiana utility’s cleanup plan that left residents...