News for December 23rd, 2009

TVA claims protection as coal ash lawsuits mount

judge gavel 100x100 TVA claims protection as coal ash lawsuits mountEnvironmental lawsuits can be complex and take years to resolve because the damages may take decades to surface, says Gregory Button, a University of anthropologist who studies environmental disasters such as the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. That means the fallout from last year’s Tennessee Valley Authority () coal ash spill that blanketed a neighboring community with toxic material in what some call the nation’s largest environmental disaster of its kind, could linger for years.

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