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13 Lincoln Mem'l U. L. Rev. 1 (2025-2026)

handle is hein.journals/lmulr13 and id is 1 raw text is: LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW VOLUME 13 FALL 2025 ISSUE 1 ACKNOWLEDGING THE DIRTY WORK A PROPOSED FUND FOR KINGSTON COAL ASH SPILL WORKERS Kalyn Sisco* Shortly after midnight on December 22, 2008, gray sludge and debris transformed an East Tennessee countryside in a matter of minutes into an other-worldly landscape that stretched across 300 acres.1 The sludge was coal ash slurry-the byproduct of burning coal at the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA's) Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tennessee, about forty miles west of Knoxville.2 Prior to its unleashing, the slurry was stored Kalyn Sisco graduated from Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law in 2025, where she developed a passion for public interest advocacy. She now works with Strachn Law, PLLC, a general practice firm in Knoxville, TN. Kalyn wishes to thank Professor Laura Mott for her guidance and support throughout the development of this Note. She is also grateful to Jared Sullivan, whose book Valley So Low served as inspiration for this work. 1 EPA Response to Kingston TVA Coal Ash Spill, U.S. ENV'T PROT. AGENCY (May 28, 2025), https://www.epa.gov/tn/epa-response- kingston-tva-coal-ash-spill (on file with LMU Law Review). 2 Mark Harrison Foster, Jr., Ash Holes: The Failure to Classify Coal Combustion Residuals as a Hazardous Waste Under RCRA and the Burden Borne by a Minority Community in Alabama, 12 VT. J. ENV'T L. 735, 739 (2011).