Subject: Tennessee Valley Authority

• Power Play

  October 5, 1995

• Disaster Indicator: Erin Brockovich Heads to Harriman TVA Spill Today

  Ooh-la-la, environmental catastrophe mama (www.erinbrockovich.com)The proverbial shit can be said to have truly hit the fan when Erin Brockovich shows up to your town. On a recent trip to Harriman, PITW found townspeople abuzz with the news outside of the American Legion at a private residents' meeting--PITW wasn't allowed in and, technically, shouldn't have known about it. Present were big-time East Coast lawyers "exploring legal options" with the residents of Swan Pond Circle Road and Lakeshor

  January 8, 2009

• Scientists To Monitor Impact of TVA Kingston Spill on Fish

  Appalachian State University scientists in the fields of biology and chemistry are teaming up with biologists from the Tennessee Aquarium to analyze just how badly the Tennessee Valley Authority has screwed up the ecosystem of the Emory River that runs through Kingston and Harriman. (The Emory River feeds the Clinch and Tennessee rivers, so it affects a lot of us)The professors will examine sediment, water and tissue samples from fish to determine how concentrated the heavy metals in the river a

  January 21, 2009

• TVA Buys X-Box's Instead of Stable Coal Ash Retaining Walls

  The Tennessee Valley Authority has its priorities in about the same order as a freshman college student with his daddy's credit card. A TVA card program meant primarily for courting its power distributors with gifts and booze is burning through roughly $75 million a year, according to the Associated Press.That's right, folks. While this country's largest public utility skimped on structurally sound methods of storing fly ash, allegedly in the name of keeping rates low, its employees were blowing

  March 3, 2009

• Bozo Offended by TVA Comparison; Senator Apologizes

  It's safe to say the Tennessee Valley Authority, FDR's enduring New Deal dream, has enjoyed better days. The once-proud federal agency that brought light to an impoverished region now is the object of open ridicule even here at the legislature, and all over that little coal ash spill. So it's one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history? Everyone's entitled to one mistake, aren't they? Today, one of the the state senators from TVA's headquarters city rammed legislation through a com

  March 10, 2009

• In eastern Tennessee, the TVA spill turns the simple life toxic

  January 15, 2009

• Rocky Topless

  May 1, 2008

• $treams Unlimited

  Private interests are eyeing millions designated to save Tennessee streams

  September 14, 2006

• The Return of King Coal

  Destructive mining on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau makes a comeback

  June 8, 2006

• Let the Games Begin

  State lines up contractors for lottery launch

  November 27, 2003

• News Briefly

  May 6, 2004

• Keeping It Local

  A rare screening of Elia Kazan’s TVA tale leads an intriguing “Films of Tennessee” festival at Frist Center

  November 6, 2003

• When Nashville was Camelot

  Forty years ago, JFK rallied this city and made it his stage

  May 29, 2003

• Last Hurrah

  One of these guys gets a one-way ticket to Palookaville

  October 17, 2002

• News Briefly

  At last, Music Row smiles

  August 29, 2002

• Test Your Boner Acumen

  December 13, 2001

• A Corporate Parable

  Ironically, Enron’s success led to its untimely demise

  December 13, 2001

• Grading the Daily

  PART 1—The Way Things Were

  April 26, 2001

• The Week That Was

  Waste overhaul

  December 21, 2000

• The Right To Know

  The press has always demanded entry into closed government meetings;

  August 17, 2000

• No move from Marvin

  January 29, 1998

• Wannabe City

  December 4, 1997

• Power Struggle

  November 20, 1997

• What Would Daddy Say?

  May 29, 1997

• Desperately Seeking the News

  June 13, 1996

• Thunder in the Gorge

  September 21, 1995

• Dept. of Things You Probably Already Know: TVA Fly Ash Washes into Tennessee River

  News SentinelOn behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority and utility users everywhere, we bequeath to...us, I guess, a gray, fly-ash besmirched Tennessee River.As logic inevitably bore out, the gazillion gallons of poisonous muck loosed form the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant made its inexorable way from the confluence of the Clinch and Emory rivers into the Mighty Tennessee, the News Sentinel reported!The Devil's brew of arsenic, mercury and other deleterious heavy metals made its way at least ten m

  June 5, 2009

• Our Back Pages: This Week in Print Over the Years

  ​ Our Back Pages brings you tidbits of Nashville history from near and far, chronologically speaking.This week, we return to the fateful week of Dec. 7, 1941, as chronicled in the Nashville Banner. As the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged America into a new reality, the war came home to Nashville in its earliest days.Even though the nation had been scrambling to get onto a war footing for more than a year as German forces rolled across Europe, much of the population continued to hope the

  December 7, 2009

• NY Times on the Coal Ash Conundrum That Shouldn't Be

  Terry and Sandy Gupton at their ruined pasture, which is now ground zero.​It's been more than a year since the largest man-made environmental disaster in United States history struck a tiny East Tennessee town a devastating blow. And what do we have to show for it so far? Nothing but a poisoned populace, a sullied landscape in the shadow of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston smokestacks, and a vacuum where a bill that federally regulates coal ash as hazardous waste should be.The Obama a

  January 20, 2010