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Biden nominates four new directors for TVA board

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President Biden nominates four new directors to the Tennessee Valley Authority board, aiming to diversify the 9-member panel and add supporters of green energy policy. The announcement comes as Biden prepares to host a climate summit with world leaders. The new nominees will help shift the TVA's direction toward clean energy initiatives.

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Biden nominates four new directors for TVA board

Appointments will diversify all-white panel, add labor and green energy supporters

April 20, 2021

by

Dave Flessner

| Updated April 21, 2021 at 9:05 a.m.

Three months after being inaugurated, President Joe Biden is quickly putting his stamp on America's biggest public power utility by nominating new directors for nearly half of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The four nominees for the TVA board announced Tuesday will help diversify the 9-member panel and give it more backers of Biden's green energy policy as the president prepares to host a Summit on the Climate with world leaders on Thursday and Friday.