Public Health Benefits of Dethroning King Coal in the U.S. by Robert Bullard, www.opednews.com May 13th, 2011 The movement to renewable energy is the preferred strategy to clean energy future for our nation. However, coal is still king--accounting for half of U.S. electricity in 2009. The time has come to dethrone this dirty king and shift investments to clean renewable energy.
TENNESSEE: Reflections on the one year anniversary of the Fly Ash Disaster On December 22, 2008 the largest coal fly ash disaster in the world occurred in Roane County, Tennessee along the banks of the Emory River at the Kingston Electric Coal Plant which is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
TENNESSEE: Video testimony in aftermath of TVA fly ash disaster United Mountain Defense has begun training local residents to use YouTube to document their lives in the aftermath of the TVA Coal Ash Spill. The first such effort is a sobering account of polluted waterways, dead animals and acute health effects.
