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SACE Comments on TVA, EPA, and the Systemic Corruption of Reality Under Trump’s “Misinformation of Truth”

 Press Release | 02.12.2026

Contact: Amy Rawe, SACE, 865-235-1448, amyr@cleanenergy.org

In response to the Trump administration’s escalating rewriting of the truth and dismantling of science, Dr. Stephen A. Smith, Executive Director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, posted a statement on the dangers under Trump’s Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”

This week’s audacious reality-warping acts by Trump and the federal agencies TVA and EPA reinforce that our country is no longer operating within the boundaries of political party debates with any checks on reality or destructive decisions. Entitles like TVA, the nation’s largest public power provider, and the EPA, the very agency tasked with protecting people and our environment, bowed in pathetic submission to Trump’s Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”

Read SACE’s full statement in Dr. Smith’s article: The “Ministry of Truth” Has Spoken: How Trump, EPA, Peabody Energy, and a compliant TVA Board declared war on reality and are going to stick you with the bill.

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