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5 mentions for outlet: Chattanooga Times
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An editorial arguing that TVA should comply with EPA clean-air enforcement orders rather than appeal them, and should phase out its oldest, dirtiest coal-fired power plants. The piece criticizes TVA's strategy of calling major plant reconstructions…
“If we want to save TVA, the people of the Valley need to be involved in charting its future course. The regional commission is the only plan out there that gives us that opportunity.”
The article discusses TVA's controversial aquatic herbicide management program on the Tennessee River, examining competing interests between dock owners, fishermen, and environmental advocates. Wayne Poppe, TVA's point person for the new Aquatic Plant Management Program, explains…
The Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition charged that TVA's $20 billion nuclear power program was based on faulty electricity-demand forecasting since the mid-1970s and that the utility continues to use flawed methods. The coalition argues TVA…
“The problem is that nuclear power is taking over a billion dollars a year in construction and another half billion dollars a year in operating and maintenance costs and in two and a half years it hasn't produced a single watt of electricity”
