Toxic Tsunami

They did not have to actually live there, as any large coal plant has been known for many years to not be a safe place to be.
Containment procedures were designed to keep the costs down, while keeping profit up. The company used profits to provide employees a convienience,ie: communities nearby, but knew all along that it was still dangerous.
Manipulating the stupidity of people is indeed a reprehensible crime, but hey, stupid is as stupid does.
All coal production needs to be stopped, now. Oh yeah, the first two comments, shove off scum.

Madarsas do not help the world at all with their outdated discourse on jihad.

They do not explain enough to muslims about the correct path to reach heaven directly which is lately by Drone attack, hence these poor people are still blowing themselevs up in market squares causing terrible carbon footprint...

"Yea though I walk through the (Tennessee TVA-EPA) valley of death, I will fear no evil:......" because I am the Devil Himself. I will punish the United States for damaging the Environment by destroying the entire American population. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" The United States is coming to its final end. Nothing will matter now. Due to their betrayal of the Environment, all Americans must prepare to suffer from extreme pains and experience the most horrifying death.

'ashes to ashes, dust to dust' in the Bible?

By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

'ashes to ashes, dust to dust' The United States is coming to its final end. Nothing will matter now. Due to their betrayal of the Environment, all Americans must prepare to suffer from the extreme pains and experience the most horrifying death.

Free enterprise is a good thing... but nobody has a right to poison the water or the air. so if industry is not held responsible for the full cost of catastrophes caused by its own preventable blunders, THAT isn't a free market...that is a license to cause death and disease, a license the government has NO right to issue, and a privilege industry has NO right to assume.

It was kind of TVA to remove some of the effected residents - but as for the ones they left behind still suffering. Each day I get up to look at dust so thick on my counter tops and on my furniture and floors. TVA-EPA and TDEC all say it is safe- how can that amount of dust be lung healthy for anyone.
But like I said the ones that were bought out are now gone and are breathing feash clean air and enjoying dust free homes. The few of us that are left behind are still breathing and consuming who knows what because we don't.
We need help- TVA wants to take the property that is left for the pennies they now want to offer because they consider the ones left the less effected ones. Well they got the sludge and we got the massive amounts of dust. We breath it daily. We worry what the furture will bring us- TVA will not budge to help us out of here. So as for making everthing right and everyone whole again was yet another TVA PR success.
Just call us the ones forgotten and left behind!

"In 20/20 hindsight we ask ourselves that question, too" What the CEO didn't say is "Who cares? Insurance will pay most of the clean-up costs and the rest we'll pass on to the customers!"

What happened to James Schean's house in analogous to what is happening to the entire planet in a different form of coal plant pollution = CO2.

Along with over fishing of the oceans, coal is easily one of the most insidious dangers to the earth.

Wise County, Virginia can't stand anymore of the progress and prosperity of the new and improved, clean, green, hybrid coal industries method of extracting said clean coal. http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138 Homes and communities are virtually becoming mountaintop removal coal mines!

www.ilovemountains.org

Yes, it could happen again at this location in West Virginia.

http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/MBN/blog/Big-Coal-Gets-Boot

If we can pnly find a way to dispose of nuclear waste safely...as we wean away from gas and oil fired energy, we'll need much more electricity. At the moment, coal is mostly where we get reasonably priced juice. But even with the radioactive waste thing going, nukes have little carbon footprint. In the last few years I've gone from no-nukes to pro-nukes. James Lovelock, an ecologist who wrote "The Gaian Hypothesis" agrees.