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Tennessee Coal Disaster: A Nightmare Before Christmas

January 5, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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coal, coalash, coalpollution, coalpower, coalspill, dirtycoal, flyash, tennessee

Imagine an Olympic size swimming pool brimming with highly toxic waste.  Now imagine over 1,600 such sludge-filled pools -- or about a billion gallons.  That's how much liquified coal waste -- "fly ash" -- broke through an earthen dike at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant...continued

Rob Perks
Rob Perks
Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
Washington, D.C.
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and...
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