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Stories about America's second-largest waste stream.
And the saga continues in Tennessee, nearly four and a half years after the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal ash disaster.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/apr/03/ash-spill-talks-go-on/
NOTHING TO CELEBRATE: EPA Coal Ash Rules Stuck in Neutral on Fourth Anniversary of TVA spill A Billion Pounds of Arsenic/Toxic Metals Added to Impoundments/Landfills from 2009-11. December 21, 2012
It’s been four years since the TVA disaster and …
We’ve had promises of coal ash regulation. We’ve had debates about coal ash legislation. We’ve had lawsuits. We’ve had more coal ash spills — which got a fraction of the media coverage. We’ve had public hearings. Nearly half a million people commented on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed (yet still un-enacted) regulations.
What most of us haven’t had are memories of Kingston, T.N., before, during and after the massive Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash spill. But, thanks to the wonder of the Internet, you can get a pretty good feel for what life was like four years ago before the coal ash spill, the devastation that was caused by the diaster and what life is like now.
Watch.
(Source: coalashchronicles.com)
Federal judge orders mediation in coal ash spill
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that on Monday, U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan gave the two sides 120 days to reach a settlement.
Toxic Coal Ash Cleanup Efforts Stopped After Deal Reached with U.S. EPA
This December will mark the four-year anniversary of a massive spill in Tennessee that sparked new calls for the regulation of coal ash, a toxic waste produced when coal is burned. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed options for regulating coal ash in 2010, little progress has been made toward issuing comprehensive national standards. Environmental groups have asked the courts to force the agency to act while bills attempting to thwart new standards have been moving through Congress. This impasse may continue until after the upcoming elections. The failure to provide adequate standards for coal ash is increasingly alarming as new studies continue to highlight its dangers.
No Movement on Coal Ash Protections Despite Mounting Evidence of Danger - OMB Watch
Before and After the TVA coal ash spill
(Source: youtu.be)
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 plaintiffs who sued after a containment dike at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant burst in 2008. About 5 million cubic yards of ash spilled out of a storage pond, flowed into a river and spoiled hundreds of acres in a riverside community 35 miles west of Knoxville.
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“Had TVA followed its own mandatory policies, procedures, and practices, the subsurface issues underlying the failure of North Dike would have been investigated, addressed, and potentially remedied before the catastrophic failure of December 22, 2008,” he wrote.
(Source: seattlepi.com)
Two members of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Kingston Ash Recovery Project will lead a special seminar at Old Dominion University Tuesday, April 3, on the environmental impact and other aspects of the 5 million-cubic-yard spill of coal ash that occurred in 2008 at TVA’s coal-fired generating plant in Kingston, Tenn., on the Emory River.
Neil Carriker and William Rogers, who have been involved in the post-accident response and recovery efforts, will speak at 12:30 p.m. in Room 1202 of the E.V. Williams Engineering and Computational Sciences Building. Their topic is “The TVA Kingston Coal Ash Spill - Overview of the Response and Recovery Effort, Research Underway, Current Status and Plans.”
The clincher was a $1.7 million allocation the city received from TVA from a fund to help the county overcome the effects of the disastrous 2008 coal ash spill at its Kingston Fossil Plant.
