A federal judge in Tennessee, in an Aug. 4 decision, ordered the Tennessee Valley Authority to remove coal ash from leaking unlined storage ponds at the Gallatin coal-fired plant in north-central Tennessee, and move it to dry storage in a landfill.
TVA, which had estimated the cost of the project at up to $2 billion, has not decided whether to appeal the ruling by Judge Waverly Crenshaw, chief US District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee in Nashville. “It is too soon to say what the cost of impact of the order might be," said the utility in a statement.