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1,515 mentions for region: Tennessee
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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…
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…
“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.”
“Valley ratepayers are ill-served by this lack of oversight”
“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 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…
“engaging in ratemaking policy in violation of the TVA Act”
“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?”
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…
“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.”
“I can't tell you what is the best thing for TVA — but that's because there is not enough information for people outside TVA to make decisions”
“absolutely the right thing to do”
Vanderbilt University has signed an agreement with Nashville Electric Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority to purchase power from a new 35-megawatt solar farm in Bedford County, developed by Silicon Ranch, to help meet its carbon-neutral…
TVA held a public meeting to discuss long-range planning, with focus on conservation and nuclear power. Public commenters, including Tennessee Environmental Council board member John Noel III, called for greater TVA transparency and questioned the economic…
“One of the criticisms we heard over and over was TVA is not specific enough”
