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21 mentions for outlet: Inside Climate News
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“retiring coal plants is "one of our primary ways" to combat pollution, climate change and associated health harms. Extending their operations, she said, "will make climate change happen faster and will make it worse over the long-term."”
“Expediting a permitting process is usually code for minimizing public input while simultaneously increasing burden on agency staff”
“Aerial view of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Cumberland Fossil Plant in Cumberland City, Tenn. White emissions billow from stacks at the plant.”
“You're making a very large utility that has a tremendous amount of financial resources, a tremendous amount of political power, and that does not always bode well for ratepayers. The more political power that a utility has, the more probable it is that they will use that power to the disadvantage of ratepayers.”
“This is not unusual for TVA to basically have their staff pushing out coal industry propaganda downplaying and misleading the public about the dangers of coal ash. And the sad irony of it is that TVA had the largest coal ash disaster of any utility in the country, and workers who were involved in the TVA cleanup actually died.”
Georgia has lacked a Consumer Utilities Counsel since 2008, leaving residential ratepayers without dedicated representation in complex utility rate cases. The article examines efforts to restore the office and notes that advocacy groups like the Southern…
“The approval is going to set us even further back on making climate progress. It's really frustrating, because we were making incremental progress as a state.”
“These two different types of land use simply are not compatible. It will be expensive, it will be loud, it will be ugly, it will be huge, it will pollute, and it will require water resources, likely from the nearby Yadkin River, that will no longer be available for agriculture. And it isn't even needed. All this complex will do is turn methane gas into combustion pollution and move money from ratepayers' pockets into shareholders' portfolios.”
“There's a bubble, and what's going to end up happening is there's going to be a consolidation”
“It's one of the most expensive things that has ever been built on the face of the earth”
“This is exactly what's happening; Elon Musk and his company are moving very fast, and what they're breaking is the trust and the health of a community that has already been significantly impacted by industrial development”
Sixteen states and environmental groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's freeze on $5 billion in federal funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. The lawsuit…
“We're disappointed to see President Trump's hyper-partisan action of removing a sitting TVA board member for no reason. This action further weakens TVA's leadership and sets into motion actions that could have significant financial impact on TVA ratepayers across the region. As shared in SACE's statement about the TN senators who are asking TVA to ignore a proper financial review and analysis of unproven technologies, SACE believes that it's inappropriate for the President or the senators to try to micromanage TVA's decisions on energy choices across the region.”
“Only in an Orwellian world of misinformation do we see our nation's largest 'public' power utility pass a massive rate increase while providing the public the least amount of information compared to 'private' utilities. It's highly unusual for a utility the size of TVA to issue a rate increase with zero independent review. This is a broken process, and every ratepayer in the Tennessee Valley is literally paying the price.”
“Policymakers must choose. Do they want their states and our nation to lead in the expanding global EV market? Or do they wish to send investments and jobs overseas? You either lead or follow. There is no middle of the road.”
