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380 mentions for region: Alabama
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An op-ed criticizing the Bush administration's energy policy as favoring fossil fuel extraction and power plant construction over conservation and efficiency. The piece cites TVA's energy efficiency programs and references SACE's involvement in clean air initiatives…
“They've been using weather as a crutch”
“TVA is not looking forward, it is still locked in the failed vision of the past”
“We are part of this important effort to ensure that local communities and the public finally have the ability to raise important concerns about the risks associated with radioactive waste and subsequent storage at nuclear plants across the Southeast. The Court agreed with us that it's long overdue for these serious impacts to finally be evaluated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and shared with the public. Now we're just making sure that'll happen--that communities will have a voice.”
“yet another chapter in TVA's long history of dramatic delays and nuclear cost overruns. Someone needs to be held accountable for this $2 billion mistake. This is simply unacceptable.”
“There must be accountability for this huge mistake. It's just another chapter in TVA's long history of dramatic delays and nuclear cost overruns. For some reason, TVA keeps getting burned at the nuclear oven but keeps going back. You think they would learn that nuclear is not the way to go.”
A Knoxville environmentalist and executive director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, Stephen A. Smith, crashed a rented plane en route to Alabama where he planned to protest forest product exports. Smith and four others…
“I think it is still kind of a pipe dream that they are going to finish that as a nuclear plant”
During an extreme heat wave and drought in central Alabama, a coalition of environmental groups released the River Network report "Burning Our Rivers" highlighting how power generation consumes water and creates a negative feedback loop during…
“We think things have gotten worse under Governor Deal. It's not just a matter of money, but a matter of will and the desire to protect long-term [Southeast] regional interests.”
“Waste is an environmental concern, it's a public health concern and it's become a security concern because we live in a different world now”
An analysis of five key factors shaping Southeast solar financing in 2020, including the maturation of the solar industry, new market entrants, and corporate/regulatory developments. The article references Southern Alliance for Clean Energy's solar capacity projections…
“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”
TVA Director Johnny Hayes testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on his confirmation, promising to protect employee jobs amid a proposal to eliminate the agency's $106 million annual federal appropriation. The proposal aims…
“TVA's refusal to conduct such a study may run counter to federal requirements”
