<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/31104485-cb86-4b1e-bb12-0629548603c4/103D7F53-D389-4721-9F9C-A6AA9280FE16/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/" href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/"><P class="storyheadline">Environmental Spill Disaster Devastates Tennessee; 48 Times the Size of Exxon Valdez</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/"><DIV class="teaserleft"> Approximately 500 million gallons of coal ash sludge has broken through a holding pond at a coal-fired plant. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/"><P>An environmental disaster of epic proportions has occurred in Tennessee. Monday night, 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke through a dike of a 40-acre holding pond at <A _base_ href="http://www.tva.gov/sites/kingston.htm" linkindex="66">TVA's Kingston coal-fired power plant</A> covering 400 acres up to six feet deep, damaging 12 homes and wrecking a train.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/">Officials also said that the magnitude of this spill is such that the entire area could be declared a federal superfund site.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/">toxic substances are in that sludge: Mercury, arsenic, lead, beryllium, cadmium. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/">they could (at the mild end) irritate skin or trigger allergies or (longer term) cause cancer or neurological problems.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/"><STRONG>Greenpeace Calls for Criminal Investigation</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/115323/environmental_spill_disaster_devastates_tennessee%3B_48_times_the_size_of_exxon_valdez/"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rGmVCABMRRQ&hl=en&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/103D7F53-D389-4721-9F9C-A6AA9280FE16/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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