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TVA Spill

Coal Ash is So Safe, I’d Eat it on Cereal, Doctor Says

Arsenic has been a known poison for centuries – in fact, it was often used as a murder weapon during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It causes cancer of the skin, lungs, bladder and kidney as well as symptoms like violent bowel pain, bloody vomit, convulsions, delirium, and death.
Yet according to the GOP’s star [...]

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Tennessee Town Still Looks Like a Moonscape After TVA Spill

It’s been nearly 7 months since the residents of Harriman, Tennessee woke up to find their properties – and the once-pristine lakes that could be seen from their windows – engulfed in a toxic mess of wet, gray coal sludge. Sadly, the view from their homes still hasn’t changed much, and their children are beginning [...]

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TVA Spill Update: Worried Residents and More Coal Spills

Over three weeks after the December 22nd TVA coal ash spill in Harriman, Tennessee, residents of the affected area wait for answers – is their drinking water safe? Where will they go? Underneath the wet, toxic mess in their backyards is once-fertile land, now contaminated and uninhabitable. As workers protected by HAZMAT suits pick through [...]

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Tennessee Coal Ash Spill Spurs Worries Around the Country

If anything could open the eyes of the entire nation to the dangers of coal, the Tennessee TVA spill should be it. When more than a billion gallons burst a wall at a power plant in Harriman, Tennessee on December 22nd, just over two weeks ago, it swallowed up most of the town, destroying homes [...]

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