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TVA Coal Ash Disaster Revisited: Is it Time for EPA to Regulate the Toxic Sludge as Hazardous Waste?

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By Glynn Wilson – It’s a scene right out of an apocalyptic movie, only no one was awake to see it — and there’s no viral video footage to show. It was midnight, Dec. 21, 2008, when a failure of a dike containing coal ash on the bank of the Emory River at the Tennessee…