TVA has long said it would close all coal plants by 2035, but is reviewing an executive order aimed at reviving the dying ...

Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy — forces that ...

At its height, the Tennessee Valley Authority relied on 12 coal burning power plants to power homes in the valley.

RELATED: Around 16 years ago, one of the largest environmental disasters in US history hit East TN Environmentalists worry about coal ash and its heavy metals in part because there’s so much of ...

The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday $13 million in grants are being disbursed to reclaim abandoned mine lands in an ...

River City Company announces that Sarah Mattson has joined RCC as senior director of economic development, a new senior leadership position that will focus on growing and supporting the economic ...

It can be disastrous when companies fail to keep that waste in place. In 2008, a huge dike burst at a Tennessee coal plant. That released more than a billion gallons of coal ash, polluting rivers ...