US nuclear industry reaches a crossroads -- revamp or shut down
“Nuclear power is really too costly to continue in its present form”
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Citizens to have say in TVA energy plan
The article announces that the Tennessee Valley Authority must conduct public hearings on its 25-year Integrated Resource Plan (Energy Vision 2020) for the first time in over 60 years, a requirement mandated by the 1992 Energy…
Nuclear waste mismanagement would create high-level radioactive dump in Savannah River watershed
“It's simply unacceptable that DOE has cut off environmental monitoring funds for the State of Georgia. The DOE has created risks for the people of Georgia and put a burden on the state and it should step up to the plate and assume its responsibilities by restoring the funds rather than tossing the problem into the laps of communities and state taxpayers.”
T.V.A.'s Blighted Nuclear Romance
“If you're digging yourself into a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging.”
North Carolina Green Pricing Plan Seen as Potential National Model
“That is quite a phenomenal change”
Southeast US adds 427 MW of distributed solar in 2019, as advocates press for more
“This program would double the amount of community solar in the U.S. over the next two years, and would enable low-income customers to participate”
EPA to Georgia: Clean up soot
The EPA designated 243 counties nationwide, including 32 Georgia counties, as failing to meet new federal soot (particulate matter) standards. Anne Gilliam of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy expressed disappointment with Georgia's narrower recommendations and…
Officials hit TVA pollution record
“This literally may be the most significant environmental case to be heard in the Southeast. It will have effect not only in the across the country.”
TVEC serves as TVA watchdog
“They felt that a collective voice would be best. People always say there's nothing they can do. There's a general apathy, not just in this area, but in the whole country. But when people come together, they have more self-confidence. We generated support for an 18,000-signature petition to protest the proposed rate increase.”
TVA board to examine possibility of boosting power rate
TVA's board is expected to decide in late July 1997 whether to raise electric rates for the first time in a decade, with residential ratepayers likely to bear the largest burden. The article discusses TVA's $27.8…
TVA nonpower funding idea to be offered
Congressional hearings are held on TVA's nonpower program funding, with representatives from the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition (TVERC) scheduled to participate. Jan Jones of the Tennessee River Valley Association proposes a significant change to funding…
Marchers target rule on mercury
“The technology is available to clean up power plants by 90 percent of their mercury pollution, and yet EPA in this proposal is only calling for a 30 percent reduction in the short-term, and not until 2018 will we see any more reductions”
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”
The Case for a TVA Regional Commission
“If we want to save TVA, the people of the Valley need to be involved in charting its future course. The regional commission is the only plan out there that gives us that opportunity.”
U.S. to prosecute power plants that violate Clean Air Act
“The Department of Justice has just confirmed that the lawsuit is based on solid law, and Justice has made this announcement at the same time that the administration has talked about turning back the laws that the suit is based on”