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2 months ago | 
wealthsimple.com | Jared Sullivan |Sarah Rieger
Wealthsimple makes powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money. Learn moreAs you surely know by now, on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered 25% tariffs against all Canadian goods beginning Tuesday, February 4. The only exception was energy, which will be subject to a 10% tariff. The news wasn’t exactly unexpected. The 47th president has been threatening to put new levies on goods from Canada, China, and Mexico since November.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Jared Sullivan
In the early morning hours of December 22, 2008, as Christmas lights sparkled in homes in East Tennessee, an environmental catastrophe swept a wide area of Roane County, not far from the city of Knoxville. It happened at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a federally owned power company managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The plant provided electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes across the South. It burned 14,000 tons of coal a day, producing 1,000 daily tons of coal ash in the process.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
time.com | Jared Sullivan
IdeasBy Jared SullivanOctober 30, 2024 7:00 AM EDTSullivan is the author of Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal CatastropheIn the summer of 1964, Bob Steber, a veteran newspaper reporter, took a boat onto Old Hickory Lake, outside Nashville. He wanted to investigate a tip.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
newschannel5.com | Jared Sullivan
Email Posted NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Local reporter and author Jared Sullivan joins this edition of OpenLine to share key points from his debut novel, "Valley So Low" and how the 2008 Kingston Coal Disaster impacts lives still today.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jared Sullivan
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Jared Sullivan
"Valley So Low is more than a tale of unrepentant corporate evil and incomprehensible environmental destruction. It's more, even, than a spellbinding courtroom drama. This brilliant, necessary book is a testament to the power of perseverance and a blueprint for challenging industry's shrugged-off human costs. Valley So Low is a ballad, yes, but it's also an anthem.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Jared Sullivan
A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be boughtFor more than 50 years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste 60 feet high and covering 84 acres, contained only by an earthen embankment.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
wealthsimple.com | Jared Sullivan
Finance for HumansTLDR NewsletterSign up for our weekly non-boring newsletter about money, markets, and more. Sorry, TLDR is currently available in English only. By providing your email, you are consenting to receive communications from Wealthsimple Media Inc. Visit our Privacy Policy for more info, or contact us at [email protected] or 80 Spadina Ave., Toronto, ON. Finance for HumansIs it Better to Pay Down Your Mortgage or Invest?
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
wealthsimple.com | Jared Sullivan |Sarah Rieger
Money & the WorldTLDR NewsletterSign up for our weekly non-boring newsletter about money, markets, and more. Sorry, TLDR is currently available in English only. By providing your email, you are consenting to receive communications from Wealthsimple Media Inc. Visit our Privacy Policy for more info, or contact us at [email protected] or 80 Spadina Ave., Toronto, ON. Money & the WorldMoney & the WorldWhy Does Everyone Care About Commodities All of a Sudden?
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
wealthsimple.com | Jared Sullivan
Wealthsimple makes powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money. Learn moreThis story first ran in TLDR, Wealthsimple’s weekly non-boring newsletter. If you can remember anything about January of this year, it’s probably that everything felt bad. Interest rates were up. Recession alarm bells were blaring. Succession was ending soon. And pros like Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief investment officer, were going around predicting that the stock market might drop another 20% in 2023.
