Lawmakers praise TVA decision
“Nowhere else can an electric utility board unilaterally raise rates without review and approval of an independent regulatory body”
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Gore hints at support of TVA keeping nonpower programs
Vice President Al Gore indicated support for TVA retaining control of its environmental and flood-control programs during a Nashville visit. The article discusses TVA Chairman Craven Crowell's proposal to transfer non-power programs to other federal agencies,…
Lawsuit challenges TVA-steel mill power agreement
“such deals grant benefits to industries at the expense of residential ratepayers”
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”
Environmental groups launch Southeast coal ash map
“Four years after the Kingston spill, we still do not have federal regulations for coal ash and what to do with coal ash impoundment”
Unsanctioned haze: Jefferson, Shelby fail to meet new EPA ozone guidelines
“They've been using weather as a crutch”
PSC & Alabama Power: Campaign contributions raise questions about ties
“In Georgia and Florida, there was at least some semblance of independence from the utility. Not in Alabama. All the commission would do is regurgitate Alabama Power's arguments. They are so under the thumb of Alabama Power, they don't ask the tough questions. It was crystal clear to us that Alabama Power had undue influence over the commission.”
School buses' sooty exhausts highlighted
“Let's go ahead and make this stuff happen. There's really no reason to wait”
Watts Bar protests drag out TVA board meeting
Anti-nuclear activists, including Stephen Smith of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, protested at a TVA board meeting against plans to fuel the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in November 1995. The coalition and other activists urged…
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…
Energy coalition: Ratepayers will suffer in deregulated world
“A major debate about TVA's future is happening without oversight or public input. This debate should be happening in a fish bowl for all to see.”
TVA fooling customers, critic says
“Valley ratepayers are ill-served by this lack of oversight”
Full term on TVA's board likely for Hayes
“We're going into what is going to be the most turbulent times in the history of the electric utility industry with restructuring, and none of the three TVA board members have utility experience”
TVA Meeting Discusses End To Funding
TVA held a public meeting to receive comments on Chairman Craven Crowell's proposal to end federal funding for the agency's non-power programs by fiscal year 1999. Environmental activists and critics, including Bruce Wilkey of the Sierra…
TVA critic seeks policy probe
“engaging in ratemaking policy in violation of the TVA Act”