Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman with long blond hair stands near a Tennessee historical marker. Jessica Waller, whose father worked on cleanup of a ...

KINGSTON, Tenn — The Tennessee Valley Authority, long respected for providing good jobs and cheap electricity, is facing a growing backlash over its handling of a massive coal ash spill a decade ago, ...

KINGSTON, Tennessee — Seventeen years after a catastrophic coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant, an East Tennessee woman is marking the anniversary while grieving ...

A civil lawsuit filed earlier this month says there are 180 new cases of workers claiming they contracted illnesses or died from toxic fly ash exposure stemming from cleanup a coal ash spill in ...

BUCKS, Ala. (WALA) - A new study highlighted by Mobile Baykeeper shows elevated levels of toxic metals near the coast ash pond at Plant Barry. Published in the journal Science, the study suggests ...

In East Tennessee, we know what coal ash can do to people. When a dike holding coal ash from TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant broke in December 2008, workers across the region were called in to help clean ...

NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI — About $42 million has been recovered in the last week by the Tennessee Valley Authority to help pay for more than $1 billion in expenses stemming from the cleanup at the 2008 ...

Seventeen years have passed since a massive rupture at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant spilled more than 1.1 billion gallons of coal ash into Harriman, Tennessee, but the event is still raw in ...