http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/15266/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/tennessee-sludge-spill-government-disaster-30-times-worse-exxon-valdez <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/julia-seymour">Julia A. Seymour</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>A new, New Deal may very well be on its way, but one of FDR’s own New Deal creations, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is in big trouble.</p><p>Federally-owned TVA, the nation’s largest utility, recently made headlines for spilling more than a billion gallons of “thick black” coal sludge that literally “swallowed” up homes as it spread out over hundreds of acres in eastern Tennessee. It destroyed three homes and damaged dozens, forcing evacuations just days before Christmas 2008.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/tennessee-sludge-spill-government-disaster-30-times-worse-exxon-valdez" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Energy Environment Government Exxon-Valdez government disaster Tennessee Sludge Spill Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:32:44 +0000 admin 27009 at http://archive2.mrc.org