Governor Bredesen warned lawmakers to not count on a federal stimulus package as a way to avoid difficult budget cuts in his annual address Monday night.
Governor Bredesen says Tennessee's budget deficit may reach $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year.
EPA: TVA ash spill violated Clean Water Act The Environmental Protection Agency wrote in a letter this week to TVA CEO and President Tom Kilgore that the utility's ash spill in Roane County violated the Clean Water Act.
Is the winter wind stirring up ash at the TVA spill site in Roane County? The non-profit environmental group United Mountain Defense, who's been on the scene since the beginning, says yes and they say they have the video to prove it.
The Obama administration will immediately begin to assess the hundreds of coal ash disposal sites at power plants across the country in the wake of two recent spills in Roane County, Tennessee and Stevenson, Alabama.
