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Comprehensive News Feed for Kingston, TN.
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New Legal Filings Double TVA Lawsuit Number
A flood of new legal filings has doubled the number of lawsuits against the Tennessee Valley Authority over the Kingston coal ash spill. Comment?
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More suits against TVA; Utility now faces 14 total over 2008 Kingston ash spill
A flurry of pre-Thanksgiving legal filings has nearly doubled the number of lawsuits pending against the Tennessee Valley Authority over the Kingston ash spill. Comment?
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... He was born April 9, 1919, in Appalachia, Va., to Jackson Henry and Martha America Sturgis Speers. He lived in Kingston, Tenn., before moving to this area where he lived most of his life. He worked for AVCO for 28 years and retired from D&M ... Comment?
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TVA report details year of obstacles
TVA released its annual report Wednesday, detailing a year of challenges such as decreased power demand and the Kingston fly ash spill cleanup as record revenue was offset by record expenses. Comment?
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Rust-colored material falls at Kingston plant
TVA is having an analysis done on rust-colored material that accumulated in the parking lot of the Kingston Fossil Plant during a maintenance procedure Tuesday in which oil fires were being used to reduce rust buildup in four of the plant's nine boilers. Comment?
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... meeting. Discussion and possible approval of the bonuses were on the meeting's agenda. Thompson noted that Kingston city workers are getting a bigger holiday bonus this year in lieu of a pay increase. Rockwood officials also opted against giving ... Comment?
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Property assessor reissues warning
... Roane County Property Assessor Teresa Kirkham said home values have increased in the area surrounding TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant. "We have had sales in this area," Kirkham said. "I'm not talking about TVA sales. We have had individual sales from ... Comment?
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... fiscal year because of a drop in electricity sales due to the poor economy and the massive coal ash spill at the Kingston plant in Tennessee. They and some 3,300 other managers and specialists at the nation's largest public utility also will see no ... Comment?
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Time may be running out on ash spill lawsuits
... & Bernstein, LLP - has litigation pending against TVA because of the disaster. A dike failure at the agency's Kingston Fossil Plant engulfed the surrounding area with 5.4 million cubic yards of fly ash. No one was killed, but the disaster polluted ... Comment?
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Economy, ash spill mean no TVA executive bonuses
Tennessee Valley Authority's top executives were told Thursday during a meeting in Kentucky not to expect performance bonuses this year because of a drop in electricity sales due to the poor economy and the massive coal ash spill at the Kingston plant in Tennessee. Comment?
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Majority Black Uniontown Gets Tennessee Toxic Fly Ash
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... The landfill is just off U.S. Highway 80 in Alabama and on many days, 85 to 110 rail cars bring in coal ash from Kingston, Tennessee each carrying 105 tons of moist ash sealed in thick plastic material that Tennessee Valley Authority officials call ... Comment?
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Lights out for Kingston corridor plan
Kingston's plan to draw much-needed retail business to the city's Gallaher Road corridor took what Mayor Troy Beets called "a kick in the mouth" recently. Comment?
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TVA Missed Signs $1 Billion Kingston Ash Spill Was Eminent, Scott Tells Chattanooga Engineers
... emergency plans for handling such emergencies should they occur. Although no fatalities occurred as a result of the Kingston spill, similar incidents have led to significant numbers of dead and injured victims. In 1972, for example, 125 people were ... 2 comments
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... Johnson City resident for most of my life, and I claim Appalachia as my home. I had not heard of coal ash until the Kingston, Tenn., coal slurry spill that occurred last year. This incident was alarming and tragic and was said to have been a hundred ... Comment?
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Social justice is environmental justice
... water and presenting the constant threat of structural failure. In December 2008, a coal fly ash storage lagoon in Kingston, Tenn., suffered a structural failure, releasing 1.1 billion gallons of fly ash slurry in a toxic mudslide. This sludge ... Comment?
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Dumping ash, and cash, on Perry County
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... railroad cars caterpillared into the 1,000-acre landfill site. Many days, 85 or 110 cars bring in coal ash from Kingston, Tenn., each carrying 105 tons of moist ash sealed in thick plastic material that Tennessee Valley Authority officials call ... Comment?
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S.C. waste coming to Oak Ridge
... Two local facilities owned by Perma-Fix Environmental Services Inc. - Diversified Scientific Services Inc. near Kingston and Materials & Energy Corp. in Oak Ridge - have been hired to treat the so-called mixed waste, which contains both radioactive ... Comment?
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Environmental activists are trying to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from starting a daily 1 million gallon discharge of water that contains mercury, selenium and other pollutants into the same river where coal ash was spilled at its Kingston Plant. Comment?
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Groups fight TVA plan to discharge water from Kingston plant into Clinch River
Three environmental groups want the state to throw out a permit it just issued that would allow TVA to dump water tainted with mercury, selenium, arsenic, and other chemicals from the Kingston coal-fired power plant into the Clinch River. Comment?
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Activists trying to block TVA discharge into river
Environmental activists are trying to block the Tennessee Valley Authority from starting a daily 1 million gallon discharge of water that contains mercury, selenium and other pollutants into the same river where coal ash was spilled at its Kingston Fossil Plant. Comment?
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