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Yes, it’s March Madness time, but I’m not really talking about basketball. Sure, the tournament is going on, and lots of people are taking lots of time off work and other responsibilities to load up on college basketball before it goes away until the fall. Nope, while I love me some basketball, what’s been...
As Roane’s Views writes, “OUCH!” But all that changed just before 1 a.m. on December 22nd, 2008, when an earthen dam collapsed at a storage pond brimming with coal waste near Kingston, Tennessee. Within hours, a billion gallons of gray-black sludge had oozed into the once-lovely Emory River, destroying nearby homes and poisoning the...