The EPA has approved a plan to store the ash in a landfill in Perry County, Alabama. The TVA will begin immediately shipping the 3 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash; enough to fill 35,000 rail cars.

The idyllic lifestyle of residents along the Emory and Tennessee rivers was changed forever Dec. 22, when more than 1 billion pounds of toxic coal ash sludge flooded more than 300 acres. The coal ash, a waste by-product from the Kingston Fossil Plant, a TVA energy production facility, burst through a retention pond retaining wall at the site and devastated the surrounding land and waterways.

Rhon Jones, Environmental Ligitaion department head at Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis, & Miles, P.C., discusses "hot fuel" and Big Oil's history of cheating the public at the gas pumps.

The oil industry has known for 100 years that gasoline expands with temperature. As it warms, gasoline expands by volume but not by weight or energy content. Since the1920s, the oil industry has taken temperature into account for wholesale transactions, and uses a 60 degree Fahrenheit standard when measuring gasoline at wholesale. However, retail sales are not temperature adjusted. As a result, consumers pay a Hot Fuel Premium when gasoline temperatures exceed 60 degrees, as they do throughout the country during the summer.

With current gasoline prices averaging more than $3 per gallon, Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, held a Domestic Policy Subcommittee hearing to examine the high gasoline prices, specifically addressing the "hot fuels" problem.

WCCO-TV and KSTP-TV reports on health problems linked to chemical exposure to to 3M exposure. Dr. Fadrin OLiaei was told by her supervisor that she could no longer continue her research with 3M as she found dangerous levels of PFC's in the Mississippi river near the 3M plant in Cottage Grove. State Senate hearings were held about the sickness from exposure in Lake Elmo, Woodberry, Cottage Grove, and even cancer in animals.