Estimates for the amount of thick sludge that gushed from a Tennessee coal plant last week have tripled to more than a billion gallons, as cleanup crews try to remove the goop from homes and railroads and halt its oozing into an adjacent river.
The Environmental Protection Agency has found high levels of arsenic and heavy metals in two rivers in central Tennessee that are near the site of a spill that unleashed more than a billion gallons of coal waste.
A wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from a coal plant in central Tennessee broke this week, spilling more than 500 million gallons of waste into the surrounding area.
Soaring gas prices, nearing a national average of $4 per gallon, are causing long-distance commuters to burn holes in their wallets along with the fuel in their gas tanks.
With Atlanta's main supply drying up, Georgia opens up a two-century-old border dispute with Tennessee. And the case could even go to the Supreme Court
Bonneville Lock and Dam, Cascade Locks, Ore.; 541-374-8820; www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/b; free. The oldest federal dam on the Columbia River and site of the state's salmon hatchery is just south of ...
Mobile, Alabama, has seen some hard times. While it was largely spared by Hurricane Elena in early September, six years ago Hurricane Frederic smashed into the area and did $940 million in damage. ...
Estimates for the amount of thick sludge that gushed from a Tennessee coal plant last week have tripled to more than a billion gallons, as cleanup crews try to remove the goop from homes and railroads and halt its oozing into an adjacent river.
The Environmental Protection Agency has found high levels of arsenic and heavy metals in two rivers in central Tennessee that are near the site of a spill that unleashed more than a billion gallons of coal waste.
A wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from a coal plant in central Tennessee broke this week, spilling more than 500 million gallons of waste into the surrounding area.
Soaring gas prices, nearing a national average of $4 per gallon, are causing long-distance commuters to burn holes in their wallets along with the fuel in their gas tanks.
With Atlanta's main supply drying up, Georgia opens up a two-century-old border dispute with Tennessee. And the case could even go to the Supreme Court
Bonneville Lock and Dam, Cascade Locks, Ore.; 541-374-8820; www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/b; free. The oldest federal dam on the Columbia River and site of the state's salmon hatchery is just south of ...
Mobile, Alabama, has seen some hard times. While it was largely spared by Hurricane Elena in early September, six years ago Hurricane Frederic smashed into the area and did $940 million in damage. ...
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