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Communities to Coal Plants: Clean Up Your Mess Before You Go!
DispatchTennesseeAustyn Gaffney
Distrust in the TVA runs deep in eastern Tennessee, and as the utility shutters two power plants—Bull Run and Kingston—local activists fear it will close up shop without safely containing its leaky pits of toxic sludge and ash.
Needing Water, Georgia Stirs Up a 200-Year-Old Dispute With Its Northern Neighbor
DispatchGeorgiaAustyn Gaffney
As droughts parch the Southeast, interstate squabbles heat up over the Tennessee River (and the Chattahoochee . . . and the Flint . . . and the Apalachicola).
Ohio Gains Ground on a Hidden Hazard: More Than a Century’s Worth of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
DispatchOhioAustyn Gaffney
Forgotten, derelict, and often leaky, these so-called orphan wells could number in the thousands.