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It Was the Worst Industrial Disaster In US History, and We Learned Nothing
superboj writes "Forget Deepwater Horizon or Three Mile Island: The biggest industrial disaster in American history actually happened in 2008, when more than a billion gallons of coal sludge ran through the small town of Kingston, Tennessee. This story details how, five years later, nothing has been done to stop it happening again, thanks to energy industry lobbying, federal inaction, and secrecy imposed on Congress. 'It estimated that 140,000 pounds of arsenic had spilled into the Emory River, as well as huge quantities of mercury, aluminum and selenium. In fact, the single spill in Kingston released more chromium, lead, manganese, and nickel into the environment than the entire U.S. power industry spilled in 2007. ... Kingston, though, is by far the worst coal ash disaster that the industry has ever seen: 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash, containing at least 10 known toxins, were spilled. In fact, the event ... was even bigger than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010, which spewed approximately 1 million cubic yards of oil into the Gulf of Mexico."
Parent is a Koch drone with the brains of a rotting peanut and the moral standing of a murderous pile of excrement. Mod him -10 "fucktard"
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
NOTHING will stop a *motivated* media from getting at a story.
I have to agree. There was no wall-to-wall 24x7 on this. It was in the news cycle for about 48 hours. That missing plane in Malysia has gotten a lot more coverage.
It's a TVA operation. That's the federal government for those that don't know. No Evil Korporats to hate on and plenty of Congress critters to apply pressure on the media corporates where needed.
Where are the sob stories from survivers? Where are the PBS NOVA multi-part "investigations" with the awkward questions of TVA officials? Where was the TVA show trial? Deepwater Horizon produced all of that and more.
One benefit of nationalizing stuff is that once it's the Government's fault the Left foregoes its usual hysteria. War appears to be the sole exception to that.
Yeah, but he's Mighty too, so maybe we should pretend his papers are in order... just in case.