Nashville, TN — Elizabeth Alexander of the Nashville office of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, announced that U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Varlan denied, in major part, a motion by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to dismiss lawsuits arising out of the Kingston coal ash spill. The December 2008 environmental . . . → Read More: Tennessee Property Owners Win Major Victory In Effort To Hold TVA Accountable For Kingston Coal Ash Disaster
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 Comments are closed  litigation  coal ash diaster, kingston coal ash, Lieff Cabraser, motion to dismiss The New York Times reports that more than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in United States history, the problem is seeping into several other states. It began on Dec. 22, 2008, when a retaining pond burst at a coal-burning Tennessee Valley Authority power plant, . . . → Read More: New York Times: In Aftermath of Ash Spill, a New Round of Challenges On January 20, 2010, the New York Times ran a strong editorial on the late 2008 Coal Ash Spill in eastern Tennessee criticising the closed-door nature of resulting talks to create new national standards for the disposal of coal ash . . . → Read More: New York Times: The Coal Ash Case & New National Standards On Sunday, October 4, 2009, the coal ash spill was profiled on CBS’ 60 Minutes. As CBS posed the question, “if coal ash is safe to spread under a golf course or be used in carpets, why are the residents a Tennessee town being told to stay out of a river where the material was spilled?” In one . . . → Read More: CBS’ 60 Minutes Profiles Kentucky Coal Ash Spill TVA Inspector Report Blames TVA for Spill . . . → Read More: TVA Inspector Report Blames TVA for Spill Comments are closed litigation coal ash spill, Elizabeth Alexander, kingston, kingston ash spill, lawsuit, toxic coal ash, tva Third party testing results reveal that contamination is worse than first reported by TVA. “Overall, these test results indicate much more severe impacts to water, sediment and fish than has been previously reported by TVA which tells us they haven’t been sampling in the right places,” said Watauga Riverkeeper Donna Lisenby. “Perhaps the recent changeover to . . . → Read More: Contamination Greater Than Reported by TVA On May 11, 2009, the EPA announced that will take over the clean-up efforts to remove one billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge that TVA spilled into the rivers and surrounding land in Kingston. The coal ash contains arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, selenium and other hazardous substances. In the EPA’s report regarding the clean . . . → Read More: EPA Issues Report on TVA Coal Ash Spill, Takes Over Clean-Up Efforts Last Friday, on April 11th the TVA announced it has purchased more than 70 properties near the coal ash spill from the Kingston plant. This move does not include those just outside the immediate spill area, leaving many who are in need, stuck in limbo and shut-out of recovery efforts. “Thousands and thousands of other folks in . . . → Read More: Tennessee Valley Authority Buys 70 Properties Near Site of Coal Ash Spill At a hearing today in federal court in Knoxville, the Tennessee Valley Authority agreed to an April 17, 2009, deadline to file its motion to dismiss all of the cases in their entirety based on TVA’s claim of “discretionary function” immunity. TVA is claiming complete immunity, taking the position that its conduct during construction and maintenance . . . → Read More: TVA seeking immunity from financial responsibility in Kingston coal ash spill Comments are closed litigation coal ash, coal ash spill, lawsuit, Lieff Cabraser, Tennessee Valley Authority Families and TVA jointly proposed case management orders to organize the various cases arising out of the December 22, 2008 coal ash spill in Kingston, Tenn. Notably, TVA clearly stated its intention to assert governmental immunity as a complete bar to any lawsuits arising out of the spill. TVA requested to file its motion on . . . → Read More: Parties propose case management orders to organize the coal ash spill litigation |
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