TVA Hit By State, Federal Lawsuits Over Ash Spill

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.

Ala. environmental law firm files class action suit over ash 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.

Alabama Law Firm Sues TVA Over Coal Ash Spill

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.

TVA to test water wells, air purity near ash slide

KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) — The CEO and president of the nation's largest public utility vowed to clean up a community encased in sludge after a major coal ash spill, where many residents fear toxic elements could seep into their drinking water.

Flood of Sludge Breaks TVA Dike

Harriman, Tennessee - Millions of yards of ashy sludge broke through a dike at TVA's Kingston coal-fired plant Monday, covering hundreds of acres, knocking one home off its foundation and putting environmentalists on edge about toxic chemicals that may be seeping into the ground and flowing downriver.

At Plant in Coal Ash Spill, Toxic Deposits by the Ton

In a single year, a coal-fired electric plant deposited more than 2.2 million pounds of toxic materials in a holding pond that failed last week, flooding 300 acres in East Tennessee, according to a 2007 inventory filed with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Tennessee sludge spill runs over homes, water

A wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from a coal plant in central Tennessee broke this week, spilling more than 500 million gallons of waste into the surrounding area.

DuPont finds high levels of C8 in Chinese workers

DuPont Co. has found high levels of the toxic chemical C8 in the blood of workers at a new Teflon plant in China, despite company promises to greatly reduce exposures and emissions.

Reburying waste not a good solution, Lake Elmo resident says

3M Co. chemicals in a former Washington County landfill should be moved or incinerated, area legislators were told during a hearing in Woodbury.

U.S. Supreme Court refuses Continental Carbon's appeal of $20M pollution verdict

On Friday, June 27th, the United States Supreme Court issued an order rejecting all further appeals of the $20,709,000 pollution verdict entered against the Continental Carbon plant in Phenix City, Alabama, and against its parent company, China Synthetic Rubber Corporation of Taiwan.