Following the trial, Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon who served as the committee chair, promised to inquire further into TVA’s handling of the Kingston cleanup. Nothing came of it. DeFazio and other members of his committee accepted campaign donations from Jacobs Engineering in the months after the federal jury’s verdict in the workers’ case, as did Tennessee representative Chuck Fleischmann, whose district included the city of Kingston. The Senate also did nothing. The EPA did nothing, the White House did nothing, the state of Tennessee did nothing. The Tennessee Bureau
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