A catastrophic spill of fly ash has renewed calls for the waste to be reclassified.
… Call for Tennessee fly ash clean up The Ecologist | 1st March 2009 News Toxic Fly Ash Tennessee EPA Waste And Recycling … from a coal-fired power station in Harriman, Tennessee, USA, has renewed calls for the …
Protests against fracked-gas pipelines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are part of a growing movement of direct-action resistance to extraction. Insider Eric Moll reports from the Frontline of the resistance
… to be cleared for loop 323 of the proposed Tennessee Pipeline, which would run through … themselves to trees in order to stop the Tennessee Pipeline since mid-February. We … any of their regulatory powers over the Tennessee Pipeline or any of the other fracked …
When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
… spill in US history took place at Kingston, Tennessee. A billion gallons of coal ash burst … complained about the lack of cleanup, the Tennessee Valley Authority chose to move it … John Wathen visited both Kingston, Tennessee, and Uniontown after the spill and …
Campaigners who dared confront the might of the US's nuclear weapons establishment, in the process revealing the chronic insecurity of its facilities, are paying a heavy price, writes Michael Edwards. But their strength, serenity and joy in the face of brutal injustice brings hope to the world for a just and peaceful future.
… The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oakridge, Tennessee, is supposed to be impregnable. But … was sent to a detention center in Knoxville, Tennessee, and then transferred to a prison in … inside a prison vehicle on their way from Tennessee to Georgia. "You can imagine our joy …
Planned air transports of high-enriched uranium from Dounreay in Scotland to the US state of Tennessee would risk of accident or a terrorist seizure of weapon-usable nuclear material, writes Ernie Galsworthy. The motive for the transport appears to be purely commercial - and would thus put the public at needless risk for the sake of a cut-price nuclear waste / fuel deal between US and UK authorities.
… from Dounreay in Scotland to the US state of Tennessee would risk of accident or a … facility Nuclear Fuel Services at Erwin in Tennessee in what NFLA believe should be seen … fuel for commercial reactors operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (owned by the …
America's coal-fired power plants produce 140 million tons of ash a year, reports Ben Whitford, most of it dumped in open storage ponds that contaminate drinking water with arsenic and heavy metals. And now Presidential candidate Jeb Bush is promising to scrap 'new and costly' (actually feeble) EPA regulations before they have even been implemented.
… yards of coal ash choke 300 acres of the Tennessee countryside, or the 2014 disaster in … radiation: in the aftermath of the Tennessee spill, TVA told consumers that the … found that the coal ash released during the Tennessee spill was about half again as …
The EPA's plan for 'clean power' are welcome, writes Tim Judson - except for its inclusion of nuclear, and economic distortions and serious omissions that favour the technology. In this open letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, he and co-signatories call on her to ditch the 'false and irrational assumptions' used to justify both new and existing nuclear power.
… Do not force Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee to finish building new reactors. … in the states of Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and irrationally estimates the cost …
This summer, the Smoky Mountains burned, writes Grant A. Mincy. The aftermath is terrible to behold. But with the autumn rains and winter snow, life is returning, and a new cycle of regeneration is under way. Once again we witness the beating heart of the forest: water travels the vascular tissue of the trees and transpires over the valley and ridge. The wilderness is breathing.
… the worst natural disasters in the history of Tennessee unfolded because of those few … and head to the quaint town of Maryville, Tennessee to meet up with my best friend, … and Planetary Science from the University of Tennessee in the summer of 2012. He lives in …
In the face of environmental atrocities like the recent spill of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, writes Grant Mincy, quiescence be damned! To stop more of the same, we must reclaim from the corporate-captured state the rights of commons and community to decide on how local resources are used.
… and Planetary Science from the University of Tennessee in the summer of 2012. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee where he teaches both Biology and …
Personnel at the EPA have been heavily impacted by the ongoing shutdown, leading some commentators to question the necessity of the government agency post-shutdown. Ben Whitford reports....
… tweeted Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, a Republican who voted for the bill …
For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity, writes Tim Flinders, and the cause of a spiritual awakening that inspired his life's work: to preserve wilderness and communicate the beauty, wonder and fragility of nature, sharing widely the source of his own enlightenment.
… an arc through the deep South of Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, and …
Birth Matters, a new book by pioneering midwife Ina May Gaskin aims to empower women to gain control over their bodies in order to have the kind of birth they want
… Midwifery Centre, based on an eco-commune in Tennessee. The Farm has handled over 2,800 …
With the sixth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster falling tomorrow, nuclear lobbyists are arguing over solutions to the existential crisis facing nuclear power, writes Jim Green. Some favour a multinational consolidation of large conventional reactor designs, while others back technological innovation and 'small modular reactors'. But in truth, both approaches are doomed to failure.
… the property at a fraction of its cost. "The Tennessee Valley Authority has set a minimum … acres of waterfront property on the Tennessee River. The buyer gets two unfinished …
Women-centred maternity care through midwifery is in danger of extinction, replaced by a medical model that treats birth as an illness. Birth is an act of love, not one of fear and loathing, so what are the consequences? Matilda Lee reports
… at the eco-community, ‘the Farm' in rural Tennessee, Ina May and her small team of …
In Kansas City, Missouri, people have lost jobs, schools have closed and hospitals have moved away. Now the government has subsidised a new federal nuclear weapons plant with $815 million in municipal bonds...
… for Los Alamos, New Mexico and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 'would be a complete renewal of our …
A newly-exposed report by Diablo Canyon's lead nuclear inspector shows that the twin reactors are unsafe, writes Karl Grossman. An earthquake on nearby geological faults could trigger a Fukushima-scale accident causing 10,000 early fatalities. The owner's response? Apply to extend the site's operation for another 20 years.
… its Technical Training Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Peck's report was obtained by the …
After a peaceful protest against nuclear weapons showed up shoddy security at a $19 billion nuclear bomb factory site, writes Kevin Alexander Gray, Uncle Sam got mad - against the protestors, now jailed for up to five years. Will Peace Prize winner Obama set them free?
… Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Thermonuclear cores The three chose …
President Obama Earth Day appearance on the Florida Everglades' failed to disguise the truth, writes Grant A. Mincy - that governmental and corporate domination of ecosystems brings their all too predictable destruction. It's not national parks that will save our nature, but restoration of the commons and their management by local communities.
… and Planetary Science from the University of Tennessee in the summer of 2012. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee where he teaches both Biology and …
The world we inhabit is a miracle of billions of years of evolution as life has unfolded in its full beauty and diversity, writes Grant A. Mincy. But human activities - deforestation, mining, urbanisation, pollution, climate change - are tearing away at the functioning fabric of the living biosphere. A mass extinction is under way, and it must be halted, and reversed. But how?
… graduate students from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on a three-day trip to … is my scruffy little city of Knoxville, Tennessee). This is no easy feat as most often … and Planetary Science from the University of Tennessee in the summer of 2012. He lives in …
The joy of the wild is rooted deep in the human spirit and without it our lives are starved of a vital nutrient, writes Grant A. Mincy. Only through experience of wilderness and its untamed beauty can we be truly human, and only in wilderness can we open our awareness of the perilous wonder of being, and know the freedom that lies within us all.
… and Planetary Science from the University of Tennessee in the summer of 2012. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee where he teaches both Biology and …
Nuclear power exists for one reason only, writes Ralph Nader - government support. Without the taxpayer subsidies, accident liability waivers and exploited consumers, nuclear power wouldn't exist. And even with all the above, it can barely hold on. It's time to end the nuclear boondoggle for once and for all.
… lawyer, who has run four giant utilities (the Tennessee Valley Authority, the SMUD complex - …
Papers reluctantly released by the UK Government in the bomb test veterans' legal case for compensation reveal what it has long denied, writes Chris Busby - that bomb fallout is rich in uranium, and that most of its radioactivity is concentrated in the 'forgotten' but highly active isotope U-234, explaining much of the substantial, long term damage to veterans' health.
… upon and Dr (Karl Z) Morgan (Oak Ridge Tennessee) promised to send details of some of …