Smokies backdrop for Bush: Environmental tie: Group calls leader's visit 'height of hypocrisy'
“It's the height of hypocrisy for President Bush to come to the Smokies on Earth Day”
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Smokies backdrop for Bush
“It's the height of hypocrisy for President Bush to come to the Smokies on Earth Day”
Coalition outlines criteria for hiring new head of TDEC
A coalition of 10 environmental organizations, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, sent a letter to Governor Phil Bredesen outlining five criteria for selecting a new Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation commissioner to replace…
Power plants told to reduce mercury pollution
The EPA issued a market-based mercury reduction rule requiring U.S. power plants to cut emissions by nearly half within 15 years. TVA praised the plan, but environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy criticized…
Emissions inspections: YES: Cleaner cars mean cleaner air for our children
Op-ed by Valerie True, Clean Air Program coordinator for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, advocates for vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance programs to improve air quality in Knox County, Tennessee. True cites the success of…
Report cites hazards of idling school buses
“The results of our study clearly demonstrate that using available retrofit technology combined with ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel dramatically improves the air quality inside school buses”
TVA to face N.C. pollution lawsuit
“The reality is, over half of TVA's coal-fired power plants won't have the best available controls, even after 2010”
EPA need to enforce air standards for state
Valerie True, Clean Air Program Coordinator at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, writes an op-ed calling on the EPA to enforce stronger air standards in Tennessee. The piece references a U.S. Public Interest Research Group…
Nuclear waste storage changing
“They've gone round and round about Yucca Mountain, and science shows it's an unacceptable facility. They're (TVA) stacking up all this radioactive garbage outside their reactors on the banks of the Tennessee River.”
Money for parks, Green Energy and an award
An editorial praising recent positive developments in Tennessee, including a $240 million funding request for national parks and University of Tennessee students' approval of a Green Energy initiative funded by a student fee increase. The Southern…
Counties should try again for air quality
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Clean air proposal expected to pass
Knox County Commission is expected to approve an air quality non-attainment action plan on Monday in response to EPA mandates. The plan includes measures such as prohibiting open burning on high-pollution days, purchasing hybrid vehicles, implementing…
TVA adds $107M to proposed trim list
“The TVA board blames the layoffs in part on pending deregulation, but there is, in fact, no deregulation legislation on the horizon. It is more accurate to state that the layoffs and rate increases are a result of the voluntary restart of Browns Ferry Unit 1. That's what's causing the cash-flow problem.”
Letters: Jan. 25 — Nuclear power not the answer
Kristina Shands of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy responds to a guest column advocating nuclear power, arguing that nuclear energy has failed to deliver on its promises and that clean air can be achieved through…