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Valley So Low One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe

Jared Sullivan

WINNER OF THE TENNESSEE BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION • A For more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee,  burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste sixty feet high and covering eighty-four acres, contained only by an ea...

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The book chronicled the Kingston coal ash disaster and the ensuing legal battle, exposing how the TVA's shift from a publicservice agency to a profitdriven corporation harmed workers and the environment.

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I grew up in Tennessee, and everyone's kind of vaguely familiar with TVA. But I did not really know the full history of what TVA was until I started reporting and writing this book. Jared writes about...

— Episode: Valley So Low

Episode: Valley So Low

The book chronicled the Kingston coal ash disaster and the ensuing legal battle, exposing how the TVA's shift from a publicservice agency to a profitdriven corporation harmed workers and the environment.

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I grew up in Tennessee, and everyone's kind of vaguely familiar with TVA. But I did not really know the full history of what TVA was until I started reporting and writing this book. Jared writes about the TVA in his new book, Valley So Low. One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe.

It's hard to remember those long subtitles. I had to...

Jared, thank you so much for the book. I loved reading it.

Special thanks this week to Jared Sullivan, author of Valley So Low, One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Cold Catastrophe. It is a really good, fun read. If you like those John Grissomstyle, like, legal thrillers, this is right up your alley.

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