TVA Tilts Balance In Favor Of Development
“These lands and our tax dollars for years have been taken by this "Authority" for the greater public good, not the narrow financial interest of a few in positions of power”
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Knox man is arrested in protest after crash
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…
Unsanctioned haze: Jefferson, Shelby fail to meet new EPA ozone guidelines
“They've been using weather as a crutch”
Did senators answer query on environment?
A WBIR-TV town meeting featuring eight Republican freshmen senators included a pointed question from veterinarian Stephen Smith of the Foundation for Global Sustainability about Republican hostility toward environmental protection, citing EPA cuts and threats to endangered…
Private meeting set on TVA proposal
“This process should be happening in a fishbowl. I'm very disappointed. I really think that Zach Wamp should not have closed this meeting. Is he representing the interests of a few at the top of TVA or is he representing the millions who have a stake in what is happening here?”
Florida Forever money could go for hurricane relief, sea level rise
“Miami Beach has already spent $1 million on stormwater and pumps and raising roads. The city of Miami passed a $400 million bond deal, $192 million are going to sea-level rise. Miami-Dade County in their five-year capital plan has identified more than $20 billion that are going to go to what they call resiliency”
TVA plan for focus puts 731 ET jobs at risk
“This is not a decision that TVA's Board of Directors can make unilaterally. This is a fundamental change in the direction of the agency. We the people need more information before a decision is made.”
Area won't meet EPA air quality standards
Birmingham faces EPA nonattainment designations for failing to meet federal air quality standards for both new particulate matter regulations and existing ozone standards. Anne Gilliam, diesel campaign coordinator for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, advocates…
Critics accuse TVA leaders of arrogant mismanagement
“TVA is so intent on selling electricity that it is opening its lands to private enterprise and abandoning efforts to protect the environment”
Panelists say TVA plan would hurt environment
“TVA was not meant to be the world's largest power generator, but that is what it is headed toward becoming — the valley be damned”
Critic calls for TVA to reform
“There's no public utility commission in the state of Tennessee that has any oversight of TVA whatsoever.”
High Ozone Levels Reported in Smokies
“We are about six weeks ahead of last year's pace as far as ozone. We've just had this smoggy mess hanging over us.”
Park becomes ozone zone — again
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is experiencing record ozone pollution in June 2000, with concentrations exceeding federal health standards continuously since June 9. The article attributes the problem to automobile and transportation exhaust combined with…
Green Power cake special for happy couple
East Tennessee environmentalists Stephen Smith (executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy) and Libby Hill (development director) are marrying November 9, 2002. Friends at Community Shares and SACE threw them a wedding shower featuring…
New TVA policy means less information about operations
“I think it is a very dangerous trend. We don't necessarily want TVA to be at a competitive disadvantage, but whether or not a plant is running is certainly information that the public has a right to know about.”