Seventeen years have passed since a massive rupture at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant spilled more than 1.1 billion ...

KINGSTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Monday marked 17 years since the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Ash Spill in Roane County. It remains the biggest industrial spill in U.S. history. The spill happened when a ...

The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order Tuesday evening directing power generation company TransAlta to continue operating a coal plant in Centralia, despite a state law that requires ...

KINGSTON, Tennessee — Seventeen years after a catastrophic coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant, an East Tennessee woman is marking the anniversary while grieving ...

The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave utilities more time to tackle toxic coal ash. By Lisa Friedman and Maxine ...

The oldest and most powerful nuclear plant in the Tennessee Valley Authority system got a second 20-year operating license extension, which will allow its three reactors to operate until their 80th ...

Centralia Power Plant (Steven Baltakatei Sandoval, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons) TransAlta announced that it has signed a long-term tolling agreement with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to convert its ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. energy secretary signed an order on Tuesday to keep a unit open at TransAlta (TA.TO), opens new tab coal power plant in Washington state through much of the ...

In 2008, 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash spilled at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant and ended up in the Clinch and Emory Rivers. Trump discovers Maduro’s Achilles’ heel New ...

SEATTLE—The last coal-fired power plant in Washington state was set to go cold at the end of the year. It would then switch to natural gas, cutting carbon emissions in half. The shutdown had been in ...

ANDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — If you live near the Bull Run Steam Plant, be prepared for potential loud noises in the area. Workers with the Tennessee Valley Authority said they are taking down large ...