A devastating environmental disaster occurred in Tennessee when – three days before Christmas, a dam burst and millions of gallons of toxic fly ash slurry knocked houses off their foundations – poisoned water systems – and covered 400 acres of land. In sheer volume alone – this disaster is more than 48 times worse than the Exxon Valdez spill.

Host Mike Tidwell speaks to Donna Marie Lisenby the Upper Watauga Riverkeeper, a program of the group Appalachian Voices, in Boone, North Carolina – as well as Glenn Hurowitz – the media director of Greenpeace USA and is the author of the book Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party.

Mike talks about the planning for a massive demonstration against coal here in the nation’s capital with Ted Glick, the national coordinator of the US Climate Emergency Council. And then we sit down with Alice McKeown, of the Worldwatch Institute to speak about how utility companies LIE when it comes to America’s energy needs.

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