Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman with long blond hair stands near a Tennessee historical marker. Jessica Waller, whose father worked on cleanup of a ...

This story is part of The Tennessean’s Notorious Nashville series, which takes a look back at some of the city’s most provocative news stories of the 21st century so far. After a coal ash pond ...

The cleanup began the day after the ash spill as workers began building a rock berm wall in the river to make sure that none of the ash migrated downstream. TVA, with EPA and the Tennessee Dept. of ...

KINGSTON, Tenn — The Tennessee Valley Authority, long respected for providing good jobs and cheap electricity, is facing a growing backlash over its handling of a massive coal ash spill a decade ago, ...

Jared Sullivan, who graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2013, has won the Tennessee Book Award for nonfiction for his debut book chronicling the legal fallout from the ...

Workers who cleaned up a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee 11 years ago say they are suffering from illnesses that include cancer. (AP) ...

BUCKS, Ala. (WALA) - A new study highlighted by Mobile Baykeeper shows elevated levels of toxic metals near the coast ash pond at Plant Barry. Published in the journal Science, the study suggests ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides power to 10 million people across Alabama and six other states, will spend more than $2 billion on coal ash costs from 2026 to 2030, according to a ...

A civil lawsuit filed earlier this month says there are 180 new cases of workers claiming they contracted illnesses or died from toxic fly ash exposure stemming from cleanup a coal ash spill in ...

Seventeen years have passed since a massive rupture at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant spilled more than 1.1 billion gallons of coal ash into Harriman, Tennessee, but the event is still raw in ...