Tuesday, March 17, 2009

14 Arrested in Anti-Coal Action at TVA Headquarters

http://www.coal-is-dirty.com/14-arrested-anti-coal-action-tva-headquarters

United Mountain Defense and Mountain Justice Take a Stand in Knoxville. 

Watch out King Coal, we're coming for you.

Today, fourteen activists from local Appalachian communities and other parts of the country were arrested at Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) headquarters in Knoxville, TN.

United Mountain Defense
and Mountain Justice organized the action against the public-private entity which is the largest consumer of coal in the country and the biggest utility. In Dec. TVA caused a spill of coal ash waste 40 times the size of the Exxon Valdez that has caused serious health problems for people in eastern Tennessee.