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60 Minutes Reports on Dangers of Coal Ash and Environmental Disaster from Spill in Kingston, TN
60 Minutes
October 4, 2009
New York, NY -- Each year, more that 130 million tons of coal ash is produced in America as the waste by-product of coal-fired electricity plants. Coal ash contains concentrations of mercury, arsenic, lead and other toxic metals. In December 2008, a giant retention pool of coal ash at the Tennessee Valley Authority coal plant in Kingston, Tennessee, broke free, creating a "black tsunami" that was 100 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill. Click here to watch a 60 Minutes report on the dangers of coal ash and the Kingston disaster. From our Nashville office, Lieff Cabraser is representing residents affected by the disaster.