A DECADE AGO,
A POWER
PLANT SPEWED
TOXIC COAL
SLUDGE OVER
300 ACRES
IN RURAL
TENNESSEE.
NOW, SCORES
OF PEOPLE
ARE DEAD AND
HUNDREDS ARE
ILL—AND ONE
AT TORNE Y
IS ON A QUEST
TO MAKE
THE NATION’S
LARGEST PUBLIC
UTILITY PAY.
By J.R. SULLIVAN
Photographs by
HOUSTON COFIELD
The stacks of
the Kingston Fossil
Plant, a coal-fired
power station
40 miles outside
Knoxville, Tennessee.