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...billion gallons of water mixed with toxic coal ash that on Dec. 22 burst through a dike next to the Kingston coal plant in the Tennessee Valley and blanketed several hundred acres of land, destroying nearby houses. The accident - which released 100 times more waste than the Exxon Valdez disaster - has polluted the waterways of Harriman, Tenn., with potentially dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic and mercury, and left much of the town uninhabitable. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...just trying to get out of Postville," says Marcus Valdez, 39, who arrived from Texas with his pregnant wife and two young children but left Agriprocessors after five weeks. During his time there, he says he injured his forearm and his eye was infected by turkey innards...
...Helped pass a bill in 1973 to build the Alaskan pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez...
...deleted references to his Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, as well as to a search site he founded that included adult content). Now a monitoring program called WikiWatcher aims to unmask similar transgressions on other Wiki entries - such as when ExxonMobil tried to downplay the environmental impact of the Valdez oil spill and when the FBI deleted aerial images of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp from the camp's entry...
...most complacent of environmentalists should have received a wake-up call last month, when the Justices, by a 5-3 decision, drastically reduced the punitive damages awarded to victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill - from $5 billion to $500 million. That decision could have a chilling effect on punitive damages overall. "It's potentially a very sweeping ruling against the effort to hold corporations accountable for environmental damage and misconduct," says Kendall. "Already the court is favoring corporate interests, and it could clearly get worse...