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Proposal to store coal ash could bring jobs to Cumberland County

Not everyone is trying to keep the Tennessee Valley Authority () from dumping coal ash on its property. One company wants the to pay them to haul and hold in its Cumberland County strip mine.

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TVA considers new sites to bury coal ash from spill

The Tennessee Valley Authority () is eying a dormant landfill near its Kingston, , plant and an abandoned strip mine in Cumberland County, , as possible locations to bury the ash it is cleaning up after one of its impoundment ponds leaked and dumped more than a billion gallons of coal ash on to an east community, according to WAAY-TV.

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