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Aftermath of the TVA Coal Ash Spill: Get Ticketed for Taking Water Samples (Video)
Note: the intro to this is the same as some other clips we’ve shown on this subject, but this one really does a better job at showing the extent of the damage caused by the spill--if you want to get quickly caught up on what's happened over the past
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"I don't trust TVA, not after all this:" Interviews With TVA Coal Ash Spill Victims (Video)
Pardon the audio quality in portions of this, but check out some eyewitness accounts of the aftermath of the TVA coal ash spill: Basically a slow response on the part of TVA (clip above) and the type of damage which has happened (see clip below). Clips
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Arsenic Levels 300 Times Safe Limits in TVA Coal Spill Water, Independent Tests Show
While TVA claims that water quality tests performed after the coal ash spill at the Kingston power plant in Tennessee show that contaminant levels remain below limits for drinking water, preliminary tests performed by Appalachian Voices tell a
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Epic Environmental Fail: Landowners sue Tennessee Valley Authority for $165M over Coal Ash Spill
Clean Coal Fans, Take Note As reported here on TreeHugger and on Discovery News last week: "Monday night 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke
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The 2008 Eco-Matrix: Who's Hot, Who's Not in the World of Green
Wondering who’s news and who’s so last year? TreeHugger’s 2008 Eco-Matrix is here to inform and entertain. If you’ve been pondering whether Al Gore is in or out, whether ethanol is still a worthy news item, or which green celebs have fallen on hard
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2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in Tennessee Dike Burst
An environmental disaster of epic proportions just happened in Tennessee. Monday night 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke through a dike of a
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World Coal Reserves Could Be Much Smaller Than Previously Thought
Lots of Coal, But Less than we Thought? Dave Rutledge, the chair of Caltech's engineering and applied sciences division, has release a new estimate of the world's coal reserves that he says is more accurate than previous ones. The bad news: There's
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The TH Interview: Andy Revkin--Climate in the Obama Age
Hopes are high for an Obama-led climate strategy, but when it comes to true details there are still more questions than answers. Andrew C. Revkin has stationed himself at the intersection of science, technology, and policy for two decades, watching
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Clean Coal Carolers Slink out of Town in Shame
I am so happy that I got them into Youtube, because it appears that enough people complained about the Coal Carolers that they have skipped town. Some thought they were just stupid, but others implied that rewriting Silent Night was sacreligious.
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If You Don't Like Coal You Are A Commie! Atheist! Enemy!
It really is quite extraordinary. We quoted Don Blankenship of Massey Energy earlier, but NRDC has found the tapes and edited highlights for us short attention span types. Essentially, anyone who thinks climate change is real and is against more use of
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Wind Power Beats Nuclear & Clean Coal, Other Renewables As US's Best Energy Option
Since the internet loves lists, here are our best-to-worst energy options if we want to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce air pollution, according to Stanford University professor of civil and environmental
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Clean Coal Carolers from an Industry Run By Morons
We have had much sport with the marketers of the concept of the oxymoronic "Clean Coal" over the years, but they have never reached such a low as the jaw-dropping train wreck of a marketing campaign that
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NRDC Partners With Planet Green: President Frances Beinecke Answers TreeHugger's Questions
Exciting news over at Planet Green: The Natural Resources Defense Council has joined Planet Green's roster of non-profit parter organizations. Together they will work on a broad
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Liability Insurance Bailouts Needed For Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Industry?
The 'Elephant in the other room,' according to the blog called ClimateIntel, is long-term liability insurance needed for Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) projects. (ClimateIntel offers good
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Betting on Biochar to Solve Our Super CO2 Imbalance
UN climate talks are bogged down in Poznan, Poland, partly by Polish insistence that a new EU climate deal give them concessions to allow
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The Reality: There's No Such Thing As Clean Coal (Video Clip)
We seem to say it on TreeHugger at least once a week: There’s no such thing as ‘clean coal’. In an effort to counter some of the pro-clean coal ads you may have seen, Reality Coalition (made up of the Alliance for Climate Protection, League of
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Five Dire Green Myths Causing the Greatest Global Harm
Can you tell the difference between eco fact and eco fiction? With the green movement growing in momentum, we frequently come across any number of statements repeatedly presented as conventional eco-wisdom, statements we often do not
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Obama National Security Advisor Outlines Energy Policy Priorities (Video Clip)
As more and more of the public recognizes that energy policy is intimately tied with national security issues it’s probably wise to look at energy plans of Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General James
