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Tennessee Town Passes Nation's First Green Food Resolution
Beating out New York City, the small Tennessee town of Signal Mountain is the first in the nation to pass a Green Food Resolution. But, just what does a Green Food Resolution mean for farmers, consumers, and
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8 Celebrity Eco-Businesses We Can't Stop Talking About
While we've seen many celebrities jumping on the green bandwagon, we've also seen them doing it for the real deal. Many have been eco-conscious for years--some are just realizing how important it is to promote a sustainable
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Angry Coal Miners Boycott Tennessee Vacations Over Mountaintop Removal Mining
Protests have been springing up more and more against the practice of mountaintop removal mining--where, basically a mountaintop is simply clear cut of trees and blown off with explosives to get at the coal seams underneath. In the
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Chattanooga Community Kitchen Aids Homeless With Bicycles
The bicycle is an amazing technological innovation, and creative people never seem to run out of amazing ways to use it. While the riders in the Tour de France are now using their bikes to descend mountain passes at speeds in excess of
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Talks Dirty Coal at Bonnaroo, and More
Image credit: Jeff Kravitz With 80,000 people, America's biggest music fest is a colossus. But Bonnaroo keeps making good on its commitment to get greener each year. TreeHugger Radio chatted at length with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who is calling people to
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Who Wants Some Coal Ash? Tennessee's Mess Getting Shipped Out of State
Ooh me, pick me! I want a slew of toxic coal ash from Tennessee's notorious spill imported into my backyard! Too bad I don't live in Georgia or Alabama, the two lucky states so far selected to receive the fallout from the Tennesse
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Removing Mountaintops to Get Coal is Bad, But Dumping Fill in the Valleys Is Even Worse
If you haven't follow the actions of the EPA in the past month as they try to reign in the Army Corps of Engineers and
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Worst Culprits From Nine States Contributing to Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Mapped by USGS
TreeHugger has covered the issue of
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100 Days Since the TVA Coal Ash Spill: Where Are We?
It hardly seems like it, but today marks 100 days since the massive coal ash spill in Tennessee happened. For those who want a quick interactive overview of what happened during the spill and during the clean-up, hearings and discussion afterwards,
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Tennessee Residents Demand Answers From Congress on TVA Coal Ash Spill Disaster
Understandably in the anticipation leading up to yesterday's inauguration, your political eye was probably not focused on what's going on in the aftermath of the TVA coal ash spill. But last week Sarah McCoin and Tom Gizzard, residents of Harriman,
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Dark Days For King Coal
There is no such thing as clean coal. It is filthy, it is destructive when mined, it is poisonous when burned and it contaminates ground water when the coal ash is land-filled or
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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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Massive Tennessee Toxic Ash Spill May Have Been Prevented by Fixes Rejected by TVA Officials
The devastating, 2.6 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash slurry released in a Tennessee dike burst could perhaps have been avoided if TVA officials hadn't rejected costly fixes, a new report in the Tennessean reveals.
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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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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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Go Fish - Or Rather, Don't
Sometimes the best way to look at an environmental issue is through the eyes of someone whose life has been changed by
