Clean air advocate responds to Bush's speech
“He deserves credit on that. There is no doubt that is a very important thing.”
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Browns Ferry gets ready to use weapons uranium
Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant receives its first shipment of commercial reactor fuel made from the government's stockpile of weapons-grade uranium under a TVA-DOE agreement. The plant plans to use the fuel in spring 2005, with 39…
Bush to visit Cove
“This will be a great opportunity to highlight to the president and the national media the effects that poor air quality and global warming have on the treasured Smokies and our local area”
EPA rules could cost TVA $4 billion more
“This is the best we could hope for in the current political environment. This is similar to the standards in President Bush's Clear Skies legislation, but in some ways it goes beyond those requirements, and it also doesn't weaken the current air pollution laws now on the books.”
Smokies backdrop for Bush
“It's the height of hypocrisy for President Bush to come to the Smokies on Earth Day”
Group trying to get E85 in ET
“we're very strong for alternative fuels, and there's three reasons - the environmental benefits; the fact that you're using a renewable resource, ethanol, that can be grown and there's no oil drilling and no emissions. The other big issue is it helps in security in not being dependent on foreign oil sources and supporting foreign oil sources. The third reason is rural economic development we're supporting farmers and the rural economy rather than supporting oil and the big oil companies like Exxon.”
Jim Fyke new head of TDEC
“It's a solid step consistent with what the governor said in his State of the State address. Our quality of life and economy are tied to how we deal with the natural world and its resources. I think he's following through on this commitment, and we applaud that.”
Mother Nature keeps pres. even more miles from protestors
“Maybe tree hugger hippies would solve that problem. It's really, you know, it's a disassociation of what's truly meaningful to our kids and our families. We need to breathe clean air.”
EPA smog, soot cuts to cost TVA
“Air pollution is a threat to the health and well-being of us all. This rule, when coupled with strong enforcement of the Clean Air Act, will help to reduce the pollutants that cause asthma attacks, heart and lung diseases, and acid rain and will benefit public health and the environment.”
Letters: July 5
A letter to the editor from Emily Saunders, Climate and Air Program coordinator at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, urges Senators Frist and Alexander to support the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act to set a national…
Groups work to reduce pollution
“We are very pleased Rep. Cooper is taking a leadership role in the House to improve air quality. This bipartisan move has the potential to break a partisan log jam that has choked our national parks and kept citizens across the country holding their breath waiting for the promise of clean, healthy air.”
Anderson Blount briefs: February 1
A brief community notice announces an upcoming meeting in Oak Ridge on TVA's Green Power Switch program and wind turbines at Buffalo Mountain. Gil Melear-Hough, a green power specialist with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy,…
Orange to green: UT embarks on Environmental Semester
The University of Tennessee launched an Environmental Semester in January 2005 to promote interdisciplinary collaboration on environmental issues. The semester includes a clean energy conference in February to be organized by students with assistance from the…
Environmentalists to protest Bush's Earth Day visit
“We hope to get hundreds of people out to show President Bush and the nation that we in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee want clean, safe energy, rather than the dirty coal plants currently plaguing our region”
Region ranks high for mercury pollution
“We feel very strongly that the current mercury rule is not protective enough for human health and the environment. It is also not protective enough for Smoky Mountains National Park.”