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2,441 mentions for advocacy area: Utility Decarbonization
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The Department of Energy has scrapped a plan to privatize treatment and disposal of mixed radioactive and hazardous wastes at Oak Ridge, citing widespread community opposition. Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM) and local residents, particularly in…
“With more than 20 years of tracking the industry, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy strongly warns against ongoing and increased reliance on this dangerous energy source.”
“Global warming science is not "unsettled." A 2001 National Academy of Sciences report commissioned by the Bush administration found that greenhouse gases are building up as a result of human activities, causing temperatures to rise.”
A coalition of 43 regional public interest groups, including the Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition, endorsed three candidates for a vacant TVA board seat: Tennessee Conservation Commissioner Charles Howell III, Worldwatch Institute analyst William Chandler, and University…
“It seems all the efforts of the past year and a half have made very little headway. It's time to consider an alternative to what we have now.”
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 it remains under construction. The plant, which began permitting in…
“TVA's refusal to conduct such a study may run counter to federal requirements”
“This decision should've been made before he (Crowell) was even appointed”
“Nuclear power is really too costly to continue in its present form”
“Polluting industries are using phony scientific statements and reports to convince us that climate change isn't happening. It's just like the tobacco companies do with cigarettes.”
“I'm worried ... the commission may die on the vine”
TVA critic Stephen Smith, executive director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, argues that TVA is basing long-range planning on flawed analysis and that deregulation will likely result in significant rate increases for ratepayers. Smith…
“On one level, there were all these bad omens — the horrible weather, the emergency landing. But we walked away from the plane, and the protest was a primo event.”
“It's not alarm bells but warning bells”
“He says he's going to save $16 billion but the original vitrification was only set at $12 billion”
