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1,515 mentions for region: Tennessee
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The EPA issued a market-based mercury reduction rule requiring U.S. power plants to cut emissions by nearly half within 15 years. TVA praised the plan, but environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy criticized…
Emily Saunders, Climate and Air Program coordinator at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, writes a letter to the editor urging Senators Frist and Alexander to support the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act (S-342) to set the…
A Clean Air Task Force study attributes 28 premature deaths and 485 asthma attacks in Chattanooga to diesel exhaust pollution in 1999. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and American Lung Association of Tennessee called for…
“reckless, mean-spirited attacks on renewable energy”
Over 200 student leaders from across the Southeast gathered at the University of Tennessee for the second annual conference sponsored by the Knoxville-based Southern Alliance for Clean Energy to advocate for renewable energy and cleaner air.…
“A leading senator ... in a key committee assignment launches a factually inaccurate ... attack on wind power right at the beginning of a national energy debate, and people are just caught off guard”
“With Sharp and its rapidly growing solar facility, you've got a real ... foundation, and I think Memphis should build on it”
“the most direct assault on wind power we've ever seen by a United States senator”
“The electric power industry's air pollution plan looks to be down for the count. That's great news for the Tennesseans, and bad news for the polluting energy companies who were looking forward to this sweetheart deal. Even with a majority in the committee and in Congress, the White House has been unable to move this bill for the simple reason that it means more pollution and dirtier air.”
Op-ed by Valerie True, Clean Air Program coordinator for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, advocates for vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance programs to improve air quality in Knox County, Tennessee. True cites the success of…
A WVLT news segment reports on Senate debate over mercury pollution regulations, focusing on TVA's Kingston Steam Plant as Tennessee's worst mercury polluter. Emily Saunders of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy warns of mercury's health…
“There's no doubt in my mind that we can reduce it.”
“The results of our study clearly demonstrate that using available retrofit technology combined with ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel dramatically improves the air quality inside school buses”
“The Bush administration is playing sleight of hand by saying that a separate air pollution trading rule will help, but the (Clean Air) Act requires a park-specific, targeted cleanup which is being certainly not what is being offered from Washington”
Valerie True, Clean Air Program Coordinator at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, argues in this op-ed that EPA mercury emission rules for power plants violate the Clean Air Act by not requiring sufficient cleanup. She…
