The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it has developed a proposal that would establish national guidelines for the storage of toxic coal ash. Coal ash is the sludge produced from coal-burning power plants. The material was never listed as hazardous and thus never fell under government regulations. However, the December 2008 coal ash spill from an east Tennessee fossil fuel plant turned the spotlight on the safety of coal ash.
Plaintiffs in three class action federal lawsuits over the giant Kingston coal ash spill have joined forces in litigation against the Tennessee Valley Authority and two of its consultants.
The amended complaint, filed late Thursday in U.S. District Court, is somewhat changed from the previous three complaints and redefines the class of potential plaintiffs - a number that could run into the hundreds. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, plus payment for medical monitoring for anyone who joins in the action.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) knowingly schemed to divert an investigation into the cause of a massive coal ash spill at its Kingston, Tenn., site in an effort to protect itself from lawsuits and restore its tattered public image, according to report released by the utility's internal watchdog.
HARRIMAN, Tennessee (CNN) -- Pamela Hampton stands at the kitchen sink, her gaze trained out of the window of her family's small hillside home. The disaster site is not visible from where she stands, but she knows it is there, down the hill, around a short stretch of highway, less than a mile away.
Two federal class action lawsuits seeking at least $5 million each and a state complaint asking $165 million in damages have been filed against the Tennessee Valley Authority over the Dec. 22 ash spill in Kingston.
Montgomery, Ala. - Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has filed a class action suit on behalf of property owners damaged by the Dec. 22, 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant. Located 40 miles west of Knoxville, Tenn., the plant released 1.1 billion gallons of toxin-laden sludge into a rural neighborhood when a waste storage pond retaining wall failed. The suit is filed against the TVA, the nation's largest public utility, over potentially the most significant environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WATE) -- An Alabama law firm with an environmental department has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of people whose property was damaged by the ash slide at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant.
An Alabama law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority on behalf of property owners impacted by a recent coal ash spill in East Tennessee that experts are now beginning to say may be the most significant environmental disaster in the United States since the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
Beasley Allen is currently evaluating claims on behalf of property owners affected by a devastating coal ash spill in Tennessee.
After a period of heavy rain, on Dec. 22 an earthen dike at a coal-fired electric plant failed, releasing thousands of pounds of ash and other plant byproducts, flooding more than 300 acres in East Tennessee. According to a story in the New York Times, the plant produced more than 2.2 million pounds of toxic materials each year. It is estimated that more than a billion gallons of coal fly ash was spilled. This is one of the largest spills of its kind in the United States, and poses an environmental disaster.
