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Big Coal Retirements Announced at TVA Board of Directors Meeting

At today's Board of Directors' meeting in Oxford, MS, TVA announced that it will be retiring 3,308 MWs of coal capacity from 3 plants.  SACE welcomes this announcement as it signals a…

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A Very Scary Coal Ash Story

Looking for a scary Halloween story? Well you’ve come to the right place for a tale that will chill your bones and leave you questioning all you once thought true. While your…

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TVA Five Years Later - Lessons Not Learned

This Guest Post was written by Lisa Evans, Senior Administrative Counsel for Policy and Legislation at Earthjustice, and originally appeared on Earthjustice's blog unEARTHED.  You can access the original blog here.  Angela Garrone, SACE's Southeast…

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Southeast Coal Ash Summit

On September 27, after months of planning by SACE and our partners, we hosted the first ever Southeast Coal Ash Summit. This event brought over 70 concerned citizens, environmental and public health…

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Closing Coal Plants - A Billion Dollar Industry

According to a new report, closing and decommissioning coal plants will account for a multibillion dollar industry by the end of the decade.  New research by Navigant Research asserts that between now and…

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Southeast River Runs Part 10: Five things you can do to stop coal ash pollution

This is the tenth and final blog in a series featuring rivers of the Southeast endangered by toxic coal ash pollution. The rest of the series can be found here. Many thanks to…

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Southeast Coal Roundup - Tennessee Valley Authority

Due to the perfect storm of stricter environmental regulations, the current state of malaise in the U.S. economy and the drastic reduction in the price of natural gas, we are beginning to…

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Ash Time Goes By, Part 3

This guest post is written by Michael Patoka of the Center for Progressive Reform, and was originally entitled "Ash Time Goes By: Administration Continues Foot-Dragging on Coal Ash Rule as Toxic Landfills and…

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Southeast River Runs Part 9: Coal Ash on the Tennessee River

This is the ninth blog in a series featuring rivers of the Southeast endangered by toxic coal ash pollution. The rest of the series can be found here. Thanks to David Whiteside,…

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Ash Time Goes By, Part 2

This guest post is written by Michael Patoka of the Center for Progressive Reform, and was originally entitled "Ash Time Goes By: Administration Continues Foot-Dragging on Coal Ash Rule as Toxic Landfills…