1 Year Later: TVA Still Cleaning UP Coal Ash Spill

by Daniel Potter, Nashville Public Radio

It was just before Christmas last year when a massive coal ash retention pond gave way near Kingston, Tenn. An estimated one billion gallons of the gray material spilled into a river and inundated acres of sparsely-populated land. One year later, clean-up is going slower than expected and it's more expensive too.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, December 22, 2009