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The Tennessee Valley Authority has made a final decision on the Kingston Fossil Plant, paving the way for construction on a pipeline expansion in the Upper Cumberland.

Throughout successive presidencies, the EPA’s power to protect the environment and citizens has diminished enormously under a cloud of bipartisanship politics, court decisions, and its unwillingness to enforce environmental laws and rules.

The Daily Yonder This story was published in partnership with Grist. In 2009, App Thacker was hired to run a dredge along the Emory River in eastern Tennessee. Picture an industrialized fleet modeled after Huck Finn’s raft: Nicknamed Adelyn, Kylee, and Shirley, the blue, flat-bottomed boats used mechanical arms called cutterheads to dig up riverbeds and siphon the excavated sediment into shoreline canals. The largest dredge, a two-story behemoth called the Sandpiper, had pipes wide enough to swallow a push lawnmower. Smaller dredges like Thacker’s scuttled behind it, scooping up excess mu...