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1,515 mentions for region: Tennessee
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Article about Watts Bar nuclear facility's anniversary, published in The Chattanooga Times. The piece references the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition (TVERC, the historical name of SACE) through its masthead listing as a member organization. The…
A weekly column on Oak Ridge environmental cleanup operations discussing DOE's 10-year plan to compress cleanup work, including plans for an on-site disposal cell and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The article covers DOE's concerns about…
“TVA is so intent on selling electricity that it is opening its lands to private enterprise and abandoning efforts to protect the environment”
“I'm afraid the debt is the weight around the neck of TVA that is going to prevent it from being competitive”
“It was designed to take Congress' attention off the power subsidies (TVA gets), but it didn't work that way”
“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”
“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.”
TVA Chairman Craven Crowell announced that the agency has not yet decided on a rate increase or completion timeline for a cost-of-service study. The article covers a TVA board meeting in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where Crowell also…
“TVA is losing money in part because its gives "sweetheart deals" to certain industries”
“There's no public utility commission in the state of Tennessee that has any oversight of TVA whatsoever.”
TVA's new chairman Glenn McCullough outlined goals to reduce the utility's $25.5 billion debt while maintaining low rates and exploring options to restart idle nuclear reactors. The article discusses TVA's consideration of restarting Browns Ferry Unit…
A bill introduced by Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen and three other House members seeks to force the Tennessee Valley Authority to sell its nuclear and coal-fired power plants to reduce the agency's $26 billion debt. TVA spokesman…
“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.”
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…
A national clean air campaign report finds that the Tri-Cities ranks fifth highest in the nation for deaths caused by soot from coal-fired power plants, with 154 deaths annually attributed to particulate pollution. The report, backed…
