ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photo by Maddie McGarvey @maddiemcgarvey | In December 2008, a dike ruptured at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant near Kingston, Tennessee, pouring more than a billion gallons of toxic coal ash into the Emory River. Over 200 cleanup workers and family members are now suing TVA's main contractor, Jacobs Engineering, for refusing to provide them with protective equipment and for causing their debilitating, and in some cases deadly, diseases. The survivors gathered to commemorate their 36 coworkers who've died from cancer and other diseases on the 10-year anniversary of the spill. Cleanup workers were chronically exposed to fine, airborne particles of coal ash laced with toxic heavy metals. Sixty-three years after it opened, ten years after the disastrous spill, the Kingston Fossil Plant is still burning 14,000 tons of coal a day—and producing about 1,400 tons of coal ash. Photographed on assignment for @natgeo. For more photos from this story, follow me @maddiemcgarvey」5月14日 22時34分