It’s no surprise that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) faces several class action and individual lawsuits in the wake of a coal-ash spill at the authority’s power plant in Harriman, Tennessee. More than a billion gallons of toxic sludge flowed across more than 300 acres on December 22 after an earth wall surrounding a 40-acre pond containing coal ash collapsed. The amount of spilled ash is reported to be nearly 100 times more than the amount of oil spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.
Several homes have been destroyed, many more have been damaged. Environmentalists say residents should be worried about potentially deadly toxins that are likely seeping into the nearby Clinch and Emory rivers. The Environmental Protection Agency has released data showing that the arsenic levels in nearby waters is 100 times greater than what is considered safe.
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