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• At annual ozone-season kickoff, TVA officials pitch clean-air initiatives

  NEWS

  Jo-Jo Jackson | 04/04/2012

  Since coming out on the losing end last year of a multistate lawsuit that took seven years to resolve, the Tennessee Valley Authority has pushed a green agenda that promises to “keep the initiatives coming, and keep the clean air coming.”

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• Green Scene: Environmental antacid

  

  Susan Andrew | 02/07/2012

  TVA settlement brings millions to WNC

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• Facing South: Landmark TVA pollution settlement will help South breathe easier

  Margaret Williams | 07/15/2011

  Facing South, the online magazine for the progressive/environmentally-oriented Institute for Southern Studies, takes an in-depth look at how a lawsuit that pitted North Carolina and other Southern states against the TVA may help residents breathe easier ... and be healthier. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates the deal will prevent as many as 3,000 premature deaths, 2,000 heart attacks and 21,000 asthma attacks each year, saving up to $27 billion in annual health costs.

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• Consider your responsibilities along with your rights

  LETTERS

  Glen Reese | 02/23/2011

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• The Enviro Beat: Dried coal ash highly toxic, Duke scientists report

  

  Margaret Williams | 08/20/2009

  An Aug. 15 Duke University study details just how toxic coal ash is: Samples taken from the Dec. 28, 2008, coal-ash spill near Kingston, Tenn., contain high levels of toxic metals and radioactive elements, including arsenic, mercury and radium. As the sludge dries, risk of exposure via inhalation increases dramatically, the Duke team found.

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• EPA will oversee coal ash removal at Tennessee plant

  

  Margaret Williams | 05/12/2009

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will oversee the removal of coal ash at the TVA Kingston Fossil Fuel Plant in Roane County, Tenn., where approximately 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash spilled last December. In related news, a coal-ash pond at an Asheville power plant is on a list of potentially dangerous storage ponds, according to a report released by two environmental groups.

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• Federal judge: TVA must install pollution controls at four coal-fired power plants

  

  Jason Sandford | 01/14/2009

  In an order signed Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Lacy Thornburg ruled that pollution from the nation's largest public utility constitutes a "public nuisance" and must be cleaned up.

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• Coal slurry for a Tennessee Christmas

  

  Margaret Williams | 12/24/2008

  At 1 a.m. on Dec. 22, some 500 million gallons of coal sludge flooded 15 homes in a 400-acre area west of Knoxville. Unleashed by a break in a waste-pond retaining wall at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston coal-fired plant, the wave of mud and coal ash knocked at least one home off its foundation and was as deep as 6 feet as it rushed downstream.

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• Downwind

  

  Rebecca Bowe | 07/23/2008

  TVA trial fires up

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• TVA trial to begin

  

  Rebecca Bowe | 07/09/2008

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