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TVA may shutter aging coal-fired plants.  David Flessner.  Chattanooga Times Free Press.  August 24, 2009.

TVA to build natural gas power plant.  By DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press June 4, 2009

How safe is Widows Creek? February 15, 2009 DAVID BREWER  Huntsville Times.

Waste spills at second TVA site.  Alabama accident, smaller than one in Tennessee, releases water and gypsum.  Anne Paine and Brad Schrade • THE
TENNESSEAN • January 10, 2009.

Coal spills when railcars derail in Scott County.  Official says river was not affected.  Anne Paine • THE TENNESSEAN • January 16, 2009.

TVA Arrests Santa.  December 11, 2008. YouTube

TVA No. One U.S. Coal Consumer, 2000.  Energy Information Administration, DOE.

TVA plants cited for water contamination. Bull Run among 'potential damage cases,' EPA says.  Knoxville News Sentinel January 5, 2009

Judge to rule on Bull Run, Environmentalists say TVA violated rules at plant By Carly Harrington Knoxville News Sentinel.  September 3, 2008

TVA lets leaks go unreported, must pay fines.  Whistleblower reports faulty ducts.  Nashville Tennessean:  June 25, 2008.  Widows Creek coal plant.

More bad news for public.  Surge in coal prices push electricity bills higher along with gas, food costs.  By JOHN WILEN, Associated Press.  Knoxville
News Sentinel:  Tuesday, April 29, 2008.

Green groups asking high court to hear case.  Knoxville News Sentinel:  1/8/08.  Suit by Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association
on Colbert Plant.

"DIRTY KILOWATTS" 2007 REPORT DATABASE:  From the Environmental Integrity Project.  Use this online resource to find the power plant pollution
data that meets your needs. TVA coal plants rank among the worst.

Dirty Pretty Things': Coal Ash Exposed.  Aerial views of coal plants releasing coal ash into rivers.  NRDC  
March 6, 2010.

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment of  Coal Combustion Wastes Draft.  Prepared for:  U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency  Office of Solid Waste.  August 2007.

Out of Control:  Mounting Damage from Coal Ash Waste Sites.  Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice.  
Feb. 24, 2010.  Profiles John Sevier Plant and Trans Ash coal ash landfill.  

TVA criticizes report on water quality  Coal ash disposal sites alleged to be  contaminators.  By Scott Barker.
February 26, 2010

Report lists Rogersville TVA plant among water polluters By Jeff Bobo  Kingsport Time News.  February
24th, 2010

Spill, seepage cause TVA problems.  Bull Run.  By Anne Paine • THE TENNESSEAN • January 13, 2010

Colbert Steam Plant has high CO2 output.  Huntsville Daily Times.  Dec. 28, 2009.

Groups fight TVA plan to discharge water from Kingston plant into Clinch River
'This river has been through enough,' attorney says.  By Anne Paine • THE TENNESSEAN • November 13, 2009

Advocates Challenge Water Pollution From TVA’s Kingston Plant.  Move aimed at protecting Clinch River,
already polluted by one billion gallons of coal ash.  Earthjustice Nov. 12, 2009.
Power Struggle: America’s old coal plants and new EPA regulations A Grist Special Series

TVA transformer (Cumberland Steam Plant) disabled by fire at key power plant By Dave Flessner •
CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS • August 18, 2010

Widows Creek woes  Dave Flessner  Chattanooga Times Free Press.  July, 28, 2010

New Monitors to Detect Seepage at TVA Gallatin Plant’s Ash Pond.  WPLN News.  July 21st, 2010.

Stricter rules proposed for coal power plants  Pam Sohn  Chattanooga Times Free Press.  July 7, 2010

Groups dispute coal mining benefits.  Studies find few jobs, little revenue for TN; association disagrees  By Ed
Marcum  Knoxville News Sentinel June 23, 2010

Cumberland plant still claims coal-firing clean  Mark Hicks  The Leaf Chronicle (Clarksville, TN) June 7, 2010

Burning Coal, Burning Cash in Tennessee.  Union of Concerned Scientists. June 2010.

Coal imports costly to state.  Tennessee spends $1.21B to transport resource, ranks eighth in nation in
dependency on fuel source.  By Larisa Brass  Knoxville News Sentinel.  May 19, 2010

Phasing Out Federal Subsidies for Coal.  April 13, 2010 Synapse Energy Economics

Report: Mercury emissions rise at coal-fired power plants.  By Renee Schoof  McClatchy Newspapers  
03/18/2010

Coal conversion pushed  Kingston lawmaker, others seek state money for pilot plant  By Bob Fowler Knoxville
News Sentinel  March 1, 2011

Stopping the Coal Rush.  Sierra Club Scorecard on proposed coal plants across the country.  150 plants have
been defeated or cancelled.  

TVA's plans could bring new work to idled plants  Decatur (AL) Times Daily.  Nov. 2, 2010.

TVA considers switching from coal to gas in Memphis.  Wayne Risher, Commercial Appeal  Knoxville News
Sentinel  October 29, 2010

The future of coal: Old energy source under new pressures, but it’s not dust yet  Ed Marcum  Knoxville News
Sentinel  October 17

TVA to shutter some coal plants, focus on nuclear.  By Dave Flessner • CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE
PRESS • August 21, 2010

TVA to idle nine coal-fired units  Agency to reduce positions by attrition, moving workers By Ed Marcum  
Knoxville News Sentinel  August 25, 2010

Future for coal-burning unclear Florence (AL) Times Daily.  11/28/11

New rules mean big changes for coal plants  Some predict higher electric bills, job losses
Nashville Tennessean, Sep. 2, 2011

TVA ash study hints at upgrade Gallatin power plant must cut emissions by 2017 or shut
down Nashville Tennessean Jun. 27, 2011  

TVA's Johnsonville plant shutdown fuels counties' job fears.  Anne Paine  Nashville
Tennessean  April 30, 2011