Clean Energy Group to Speak at Coal Ash Movie Premiere in Nashville
Contact: Jennifer Rennicks, Director of Policy & Communications, 865.235.1448, [email protected]
Knoxville, Tenn. – On Sunday, April 20, a documentary entitled Blackout: On Swan Pond will premiere at the Nashville Film Festival (NaFF). The documentary chronicles the events leading up to and following the Kingston coal ash spill, which released 1.1 billion gallons of toxic waste on to Tennessee’s Swan Pond community and into the Emory River just before Christmas in 2008.
WHO: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Executive Director Dr. Stephen A. Smith will share his thoughts about the film during the live panel discussion following the viewing and will be available to speak to media before and after the screening.
WHEN: Sunday, April 20, 2014 at 1:30pm
WHERE: Regal Green Hills 16 Cinema, 3815 Green Hills Village Drive, Nashville, TN, 37215
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Southern Alliance for Clean Energy is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization working to promote responsible energy choices that solve global warming problems and ensure clean, safe, healthy communities throughout the Southeast. www.cleanenergy.org