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	<title>The Alliance for Appalachia</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I Love Mountains.org Launches Comprehensive Web Section on TVA Spill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[from www.appvoices.org

iLoveMountains.org, a coalition fighting mountaintop removal coal mining, of which Appalachian Voices is a partner organization has launched a comprehensive section of information including links to news, blog posts, photos, and videos of the event as well as detailed information about coal fly ash, historical accounts of other similar incidents, and personal accounts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary independent tests find high levels of toxic chemicals in Harriman TN fly ash deposits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from www.appvoices.org View the complete results (pdf)
High levels of toxic heavy metals are present in samples taken from the Kingston Fossil Plant ash spill in Harriman, TN, independent testing shows.
Preliminary testing was conducted on samples from the Emory River by scientists working in coordination with Appalachian Voices and the Waterkeeper Alliance’s Upper Watauga Riverkeeper Program.
Concentrations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Clean Water to Prenter Hollow, WV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Coal River Mountain Watch 
For years the residents of Prenter Hollow in  Boone County, WV have been drinking and bathing in contaminated  groundwater.  The toxic  slurry that is left after coal is processed before going to the power plant was injected into underground mine shafts in the hills above Prenter Hollow.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining and Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.theallianceforappalachia.org/mining-and-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from www.kftc.org &#8211; (ed. note, you can also explore www.followthecoalmoney.org to learn about how much money your politicians are taking from the coal industry.)


It may come as no surprise that mining companies ponied up cash in this last election cycle to candidates.  According to the latest figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, mining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee&#8217;s Toxic Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://www.theallianceforappalachia.org/tennessees-toxic-nightmare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update by our friend Dave Cooper of the Mountaintop Removal Roadshow http://www.mountainroadshow.com/
I spent most of the Christmas-New Years holiday at ground zero in Kingston, Tennessee, documenting the coal ash disaster at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)  Kingston coal-fired power plant. I believe that this huge and terrible catastrophe may be the worst man-made environmental disaster since [...]]]></description>
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