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2,441 mentions for advocacy area: Utility Decarbonization
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TVA's new chairman Glenn McCullough outlined goals to reduce the utility's $25.5 billion debt while maintaining low rates and exploring options to restart idle nuclear reactors. The article discusses TVA's consideration of restarting Browns Ferry Unit…
A bill introduced by Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen and three other House members seeks to force the Tennessee Valley Authority to sell its nuclear and coal-fired power plants to reduce the agency's $26 billion debt. TVA spokesman…
“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.”
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is experiencing record ozone pollution in June 2000, with concentrations exceeding federal health standards continuously since June 9. The article attributes the problem to automobile and transportation exhaust combined with…
A national clean air campaign report finds that the Tri-Cities ranks fifth highest in the nation for deaths caused by soot from coal-fired power plants, with 154 deaths annually attributed to particulate pollution. The report, backed…
“The Department of Justice has just confirmed that the lawsuit is based on solid law, and Justice has made this announcement at the same time that the administration has talked about turning back the laws that the suit is based on”
East Tennessee environmentalists Stephen Smith (executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy) and Libby Hill (development director) are marrying November 9, 2002. Friends at Community Shares and SACE threw them a wedding shower featuring…
“No other utility could get away with doing this - making a $1.8 billion decision based on staff recommendation. This is a huge, huge gamble. This is a very risky proposition for ratepayers.”
“It looks like the decks are being cleared for TVA to once again proceed down its failed nuclear path”
“TVA ought to be honest about what's really driving the rate increase. They're also spending a million-plus a day on the Browns Ferry restart. The reality is the dollars are coming out of the same pot.”
“energy saved by using efficient products could allow Florida to avoid building three power plants over 25 years. That would cut air pollution equivalent to that from 500,000 cars”
“The company is not showing good faith”
“It's important that the mission of TVA be looked at broadly and by all of those affected by its decisions”
“He's clearly the one who's running parallel with Bush”
“As a board member for TVA, one knows where a lot of the skeletons are throughout the agency. What is always a concern is when you step out away from the organization, do you potentially now profit from that and turn it against consumers in the Valley? I'm not necessarily saying that Johnny Hayes is doing that, but I think that is where we would be concerned.”
