One of the homes destroyed by the December 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash disaster in Harriman, Tenn. Photo by Lyndsay Moseley. How would you like to live near a pile of toxic waste that, every time the wind blew, spread its particles into your neighborhood? Or this—how would you like to live near a pond full of toxic waste that had no liner and could be seeping into the groundwater and nearby waterways with no penalty? This is happening to thousands of Americans right now—and the toxic waste is coal ash, the by-product of burning coal for energy…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Why We Need Federal Safeguards for Coal Ash
