The TVA slams it shut now that the horse has finally gone. Maybe. According to the AP, the TVA is now "reviewing storage options" with the idea that maybe they should do something different with all that coal ash.

As Atrios would say, no one ever could have imagined that this would happen. Storing 1.7 5.4 million tons of coal ash in giant ponds next to rivers is just such a fantabulous idea. Flushing toxic sludge down nature's toilet sure doesn't seem clean to me. What would the caroling coal lumps say?

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