Offshore drilling protest on Folly Beach Saturday
“the nation should be turning its attention to renewable, clean fuel such as wind energy”
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On the News with Thom Hartmann: Corporations are Bribing Foreign Government Officials and More
“We believe it is appropriate to halt nuclear licensing decisions and stop creating an inter-generational debt of nuclear waste that will burden our children and grandchildren for centuries to come”
Wind energy rally held on Tybee
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Sierra Club hosted a wind energy rally on Tybee Island, Georgia, highlighting the island's wind resources and the job-creation potential of wind energy. SACE representative Anna Smit spoke about…
Parts of Birmingham area officially in drought
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…
Environmental groups push to implement guidelines
“We're concerned TVA is not moving aggressively enough with sulfur dioxide emission reductions”
UTC Honored With Sustainability Awards
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received two major sustainability honors: designation as a 2011 Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota Motor North America, and selection for the University Green Power Leadership…
Florida Stimulus Success: The Untold Story of Energy Savings and Economic Development
Maria Hubert of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy reports on Florida's successful deployment of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) funds totaling $175.86 million for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. The article highlights specific…
U.S. nuclear industry slowed by its own waste
“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”
Restaurants serve up fryer oil for retail biofuel station
“This is the only [operation] in Atlanta where a local restaurant can know for sure that [the oil] going out the back door will end up in their customers' tanks when they drive up to the front door. This is a win-win from cradle to grave. They're keeping the grease out of sewer systems and diverting it to a higher use. They're giving back something that is clean. It's a virtuous circle.”
US NRC freezes decisons on new reactor, license renewal applications
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted unanimously to freeze final decisions on new nuclear reactor licenses and 20-year license renewals pending resolution of its waste confidence rule, which was struck down by a federal court in…
NRC Suspends Final Licenses to Reassess Risks of Storing Waste
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission suspended final decisions on nuclear power plant licenses pending reassessment of spent fuel storage risks ordered by federal court. The action freezes nine construction and operating licenses, eight renewals, and other…
Nuclear advance fee case in front of Florida Supreme Court has big implications
“Why are we paying this money to utilities for nuclear reactors that are never going to get built?”
TVA spends 'blindly' - consumer groups
Consumer groups Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition and Critical Mass Energy Project released a joint report criticizing TVA for spending hundreds of millions on nuclear plant repairs without conducting economic feasibility studies. TVEC president Greg Mackay argued…
TVERC & TVA meetings are not "nuclear protest" events
Op-ed by Lyle Lipke encouraging citizens to participate in TVA's upcoming public meetings on the agency's 25-year operating plan. The author argues these meetings are legitimate opportunities for public comment on TVA's power generation methods, not…
TVA rocks boat with each herbicide decision
The article discusses TVA's controversial aquatic herbicide management program on the Tennessee River, examining competing interests between dock owners, fishermen, and environmental advocates. Wayne Poppe, TVA's point person for the new Aquatic Plant Management Program, explains…