In January during a U.S. Senate hearing on TVA's December coal ash spill in Kingston, California Democrat Barbara Boxer was leading calls for the mega-utility to come out of the disaster as a leader in green power research. At the same event Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander looked like he was pl...

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

In one of the more blatant examples of irresponsible, happy talk TVA press release BS "journalism" being published by the KNS, today's business section has an article about how TVA is recycling fly ash, which it turns out is "about as toxic as dirt" according to a fly ash industry spokesman. They fa...

Scott Barker: "The exterior dikes were not designed for additional interior loads which may occur as a result of this dredging future stacking operation," Galloway wrote. Galloway recommended a slope stability analysis to determine if the exterior walls could handle the anticipated loads. Twenty-fou...

TVA spokesman Gil Francis says he does not think the massive mounds of toxic coal ash spilled into Roane County back in December which are now swirling into the air really exists - he told WATE-TV reporters is was probably just some fog. The WATE report has video of plumes of ash rising 30 or 40 fee...

Six Metro Council members will introduce a memorializing resolution next week asking the Tennessee Valley Authority not to raise Davidson County ratepayers' electric rates to fund the Kingston coal ash spill clean-up. As if a snowball stood a chance in hell....

Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker says that TVA and not the federal government must pay for the December 22 coal ash spill, which means that they will pass on the costs to rate payers like those of us who consume electricity here in Nashville.  There seems to be little disputing the fact that...

    At yesterday's Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the spill of more than 1 billion gallons of coal ash from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Eastern Tennessee, CEO Tom Kilgore faced hard questions - and criticism for his lack of responses. &nb...

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation responded to our follow up questions re. the Ocoee sediment discharge: Q: Are there any short or long-term environmental concerns regarding the sludge (other than the obvious fish kill)? A: It's a pollution load. We have a recovering system th...

After digging around some more, there are a couple of troubling aspects to the TVA discharge of sediment from Ocoee #3 into the Ocoee River on Sunday. One, according to TDEC this was a willful discharge by TVA, and they did not get permits or coordinate with anyone. Two, they knew what was in the re...