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Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed by individuals against the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) following a massive coal ash spill from its Kingston, Tennessee coal firing plant. Now a business is seeking justice, according to KnoxvilleBiz.com.
More than 100 people in Tennessee are concerned enough about their health following a massive coal ash spill in their community that they have signed up for free medical screenings. These are people who lived in or around Kingston, Tennessee last December when a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal ash impoundment pond burst, sending 1.1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash on to 300 acres of neighboring property and into the Emory River.
That spill destroyed homes and damaged property and forced officials to hang signs warning people against swimming in nearby waters or eating fish caught in them. The threat of the coal ash drying and flying into the air caused more concern from residents who worried breathing traces of fly ash might harm them.
At a public meeting this week, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) consumers voiced concerns about the safety of moving toxic coal ash from the Kingston, Tenn., plant and whether the nation’s largest utility has considered natural gas for electricity production over coal and nuclear power. But those concerns may likely have fallen on deaf ears.
Communities and aquatic ecosystems near coal-firing plants are at risk for serious health problems from the toxic metals and radioactivity stored in ponds at the plants even if the facilities cease to burn its coal ash, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering, the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors is expected to approve a plan to convert the agency’s six wet-ash storage ponds at coal-firing plants in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky to dry ash storage within eight years. TVA CEO Tom Kilgore has been discussing the likelihood since just after a coal ash storage ponds at the TVA’s Kingston, Tennessee plant failed, sending 1.1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash onto a neighboring community.
The spill destroyed homes and damaged property, creating one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history. It also stirred up a flurry of concern from concerned citizens and environmentalists who argue that coal ash sites should fall under federal regulation as a hazardous material, as the material can be detrimental to human life.
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