There are things in life that are unavoidable, and others that are so avoidable that it’s incredible to think that the people in power have done nothing. On this episode of BTC the ladies look at two large scale man-made disasters. Hope you don’t get too sticky!
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Research Links:
History Today – “A Sticky Tragedy: The Boston Molasses Disaster”
The New York Times – “Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919”
NBC News – “The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 killed 21 after 2 million gallon tank erupted”
NPR – “A Deadly Tsunami Of Molasses In Boston’s North End”
History – “The Great Molasses Flood of 1919”
“Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919” by Stephen Puleo
Wikipedia – “Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill”
Inside Climate News – “A Coal Ash Spill Made These Workers Sick. Now, They’re Fighting for Compensation”
Scientific American – “Toxic Ash Pond Collapses in Tennessee”
The New York Times – Site of the Spill Graphic
Chattanooga Times Free Press – “Tennessee: Early warnings on ash pond leaks”
Southeast Coal Ash – “Coal Ash Storage”
The New York Times – “Tennessee Ash Flood Larger Than Initial Estimate”
Knoxvillebiz.com – “EPA found high arsenic levels day after ash spill”
Softpedia News – “Environmentalists Detained for Photographing Tennessee Spill”
10 News NBC – “Historic Disaster: 10 years after the ash spill”
Knoxnews.com – “Found liable, TVA faces 800 plaintiffs in ash spill trial”
