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1,517 mentions for region: Tennessee
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Environmental activists, including Earth First! members, staged a protest at the TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant in Chattanooga to mark the facility's 23rd birthday while still under construction. The plant, which began permitting in 1972,…
A Knoxville environmentalist and executive director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, Stephen A. Smith, crashed a rented plane en route to Alabama where he planned to protest forest product exports. Smith and four others…
“It was a very real concern coming out of the coal ash spill (that) because of this legacy material, dredging operations could potentially stir that up.”
“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.”
“We're concerned TVA is not moving aggressively enough with sulfur dioxide emission reductions”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“It's a classic. You got somebody who's a TVA board member who leaves to go to work for someone who for all practical purposes is a competitor. I think everybody in the valley should be a little concerned about it. ... I just think folks need to come out on the record and say exactly what they're doing. What they may be doing may be completely admirable.”
Opinion column by Sam Venable criticizing TVA's handling of environmental activist Stephen Smith at a board meeting in Tullahoma. Smith, director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, was escorted out for arriving late to sign…
“knowledgeable and qualified”
“unfortunately, that's the way the game's played”
Vanderbilt University announced a 20-year renewable energy partnership with TVA, Nashville Electric Service, and Silicon Ranch to offset approximately 70% of its annual indirect greenhouse gas emissions from purchased electricity. The deal includes a 35-megawatt solar…
