A week after a record number of tornadoes swarmed through much of the Midwest and the South, killing hundreds of people and devastating villages and towns, residents and officials in the region were still trying to measure its impact.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it had reached a settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at 11 of its coal-fired power plants in three states.
Some say that the United States is incurring too much debt, more than $1 trillion in the past fiscal year.
President Obama says his plan is smart investments in small businesses, clean energy industry and the middle-class.
Tennessee state officials slapped the Tennessee Valley Authority with $11.5 million in fines Monday for a massive coal sludge spill in December 2008.
The Tennessee community that was buried under more than a billion gallons of coal sludge last year is getting $40 million from the nation's largest public utility for economic development projects.
Months after the worst U.S. industrial spill, residents are reporting health problems. Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates.
Pamela Hampton stands at the kitchen sink, her gaze trained out of the window of her family's small hillside home. The disaster site is not visible from where she stands, but she knows it is there, down the hill, around a short stretch of highway, less than a mile away.
Despite the destruction it caused in a massive spill near a Tennessee power plant in December, coal ash has found many uses that benefit industry and even the environment.
EPA tests find drinking water is safe, but sludge spilled from a Tennessee coal plant has high levels of arsenic.
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich was in Kingston, Tennessee, on Thursday to speak with residents affected by a massive spill of coal sludge from a nearby coal-fired plant.
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.
A real estate developer has filed a $165 million lawsuit against the nation's largest public utility, claiming damages from a massive coal sludge spill that dumped more than a billion gallons of waste into central Tennessee.
The drinking water in the area of last month's coal-sludge spill in eastern Tennessee is safe, but elevated levels of arsenic have been found in the sludge, authorities said.
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.
The nation's largest publicly owned utility company may be vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to a new report.
Some men and women are meant to be just friends; others inexplicably click, fall in love, and become couples for life..
An Army helicopter on a training flight in foggy weather struck a power line and crashed in northeast Alabama, killing all three soldiers on board
Fortune: Fixing the gridupdated: Wed Mar 21 2007 16:48:00
Here's an idea that won't spark much controversy: To provide clean, reliable and affordable energy, and to effectively fight global warming, America needs to upgrade its electricity grid.
In the switching yard at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, about 20 miles outside Chattanooga, stand eight gigantic transformers. The huge machines, which weigh nearly 700 tons each and dwarf the hard-hatte...
Eight states and New York City are suing five of the nation's power companies to force them to decrease carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.
Imagine earning 5% annual interest on a fixed-income investment--but unlike the highest-yielding CDs, this one requires only a two-year commitment. Sounds enticing, given the paltry rates money mar...
So, what do you like in the market? I always dread that question. My mind flashes forward to a scene years from now, when someone who has taken my advice rises from the gutter where it put him to h...
Every retired investor who values his financial security must be keenly attuned to the creeping threat posed by inflation. Could that be why those new inflation-indexed 10-year Treasury notes sound...
Incoming Postmaster General Marvin Runyon earned his ''Carvin' Marvin'' nickname as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, where he reduced the head count from 33,000 in 1988 to 20,000. He als...
Why would a man with 45 years of experience in the auto industry -- including 37 years with Ford -- leave a lucrative job as CEO of Nissan's U.S. subsidiary to take over the Tennessee Valley Author...
Few government programs have proved as benighted as the federal operation to enrich uranium for use as nuclear fuel in generating electricity. The effort has cost taxpayers billions and given them ...
Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Steven White took over the Tennessee Valley Authority's troubled nuclear program at an annual salary of $355,200, and government officials charged him with violating feder...
Fortune: A Mild Report on TVA updated: Mon Nov 10 1986 00:01:00
Since it hired retired admiral Steven White at a salary of $355,200 a year, the Tennessee Valley Authority has generated controversy and scandal, but no nuclear power (FORTUNE, October 27). In a re...
GOOD NEWS for humans and other species worried about acid rain, beyond the shadow of a trout: this year several utilities are breaking ground by adapting an old technology to burn coal cleanly. The...
''I'M UP TO my elbows in alligators,'' says James C. Miller III, after two months as director of the Office of Management and Budget. He also has other fauna to contend with as he tries to trim som...
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