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The 2008 coal ash disaster in Kingston, Tennessee
Courtesy of Appalachian Voices/Dot Griffith; flight courtesy of Southwings The Toxic Wave That Swallowed a Tennessee Town The night of the 2008 coal ash disaster in Kingston, Tennessee By Jared Sullivan An excerpt from Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe, out now from Knopf. On December 22, 2008, Ansol Clark woke to a ringing phone.
Janie rushed to brew a thermos of coffee and wrap up biscuits while Ansol pulled on his work clothes: jeans, a blue down jacket, a neon hard hat, muck boots. After a decade crisscrossing North America in a tractor-trailer, he’d joined the Teamsters labor union in 2000 and had spent much of the past five years working at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal-fired power station forty miles outside downtown Knoxville, in Roane County. It was the winter solstice, and, in the quiet of that long night, the old farmhouses, country churches, trailer homes, and lakeside estates that dotted the hills and coves around the power station were dark and still.
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