{"id":4218,"date":"2018-11-10T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2018-11-10T17:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:18:54","slug":"interview-jamie-satterfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/11\/10\/interview-jamie-satterfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Journalist Jamie Satterfield About Workers Poisoned by Coal Ash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Knoxville News Sentinal\u2019s Jamie Satterfield, the investigative reporter who has been following the story about cleanup workers<\/a> who died and were sickened by their exposure to coal ash in the cleanup of the massive spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority\u00a0Kingston Fossil Fuel Power Plant in Tennessee, was interviewed yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Key paragraph:<\/p>\n

What my investigation showed was that Jacobs Engineering, this firm that was put in charge of the cleanup, they not only did not tell the workers the danger of coal ash, they didn’t explain to them what was in it. And in fact, they lied to them. They told them that they could safely eat a pound of coal ash, which again is full of toxins, every day and be safe. That’s absurd. Even the American Coal Ash Association doesn’t make that claim. And they also – they pressured the EPA. The EPA wanted these workers in Tyvek suits and to have respiratory masks and other respiratory protection. And Jacobs and TVA pushed back on the EPA. And then later, as some of these workers started getting sick on the job site and began to question the safety of the coal ash, if they demanded respiratory protection, they were fired.<\/p>\n

Two things.<\/p>\n