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Duke Energy makes deal to end challenge to Cliffside permit
Environmental organizations including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy have agreed to drop their legal challenge to Duke Energy's Cliffside coal plant expansion permit in exchange for Duke's commitment to close over 1,600 megawatts of older…
American Labor is Part of the Environment, Too.
An opinion piece critiquing environmental groups' push to regulate coal ash as hazardous material, arguing that such regulations could harm African American and Latino workers in highway maintenance and construction. The article names Southern Alliance for…
Duke: Catawba River 'stress' studies unfair
Duke Energy defends its management of the Catawba River against recent reports characterizing the river as stressed or endangered. At a March 2 meeting of the Catawba-Wateree River Basin Advisory Commission, Duke representatives argued that studies…
Agreement Cuts Pollution by Retiring Dirty Old Coal in Carolinas
“We are pleased to finally have a settlement agreement with Duke Energy to offset the enormous amount of carbon dioxide that the Cliffside coal plant will emit over its lifespan. Duke's old coal plants need to come offline to reduce the company's contribution to climate change while making room for cleaner, more sustainable energy sources.”
Homeowners and businesses who invest in renewable energy could get a tax break under plan
“Energy efficiency is always cheaper than a new plant…even the cheapest power plant”
Delays and cost overruns hit Watts Bar work
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced delays and cost overruns for the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant's second reactor completion. The project, originally planned for five years at $2.5 billion, will now take at least a year…
Duke Energy to retire some coal-fired plants
Duke Energy agreed to retire more than 1,600 megawatts of old coal-fired power plants in a legal settlement, removing legal challenges to the new 800-megawatt Cliffside coal unit in North Carolina. The settlement, negotiated with four…
EPA faces lawsuit over coal-ash rule delay
Environmental and public-health groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, plan to sue the EPA to force release of federal standards for coal-ash disposal. The lawsuit follows the EPA's failure to issue promised regulations after…
A year after Fukushima, the South remains at unnecessary risk of nuclear disaster
One year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the article examines ongoing risks posed by aging GE Mark I reactors and new AP1000 designs planned for the South. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy joined eight other…
Speakers: Nuclear energy can end up costing all of us
A presentation by nuclear power opponents Mary Olson (Nuclear Information and Resource Service) and Mandy Hancock (Southern Alliance for Clean Energy) highlighted the economic, environmental, and health costs of nuclear energy in Florida. Hancock characterized nuclear…
Rejected by NRC, Vogtle Opponents Challenge COL in Court
Environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy challenged the NRC's approval of a combined license for Southern Co. to build two new reactors at Georgia's Plant Vogtle. The groups sought a new environmental impact…
Anti-Nuclear Groups in Georgia Seek to Block First New Nuclear Plants in U.S. in Decades
“You would think that the conservative party would be conservatively approaching use of both ratepayer money and taxpayer money and that they would want transparency and openness. Yet we've heard virtually nothing from anyone in the Republican Party.”
Solar officials don't want TVA to put the brake on incentives
“One reason we have been really pushing TVA to be supportive of this industry is that Tennessee is well-positioned to be a leader in the solar manufacturing world”
Unsanctioned haze
“They've been using weather as a crutch”