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2,441 mentions for advocacy area: Utility Decarbonization
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“TVA is providing absolute-ly no leadership on helping its customers to better use power. There is no reason to rush headlong into building more nuclear and coal power plants without doing the types of programs TVA once did to ensure we utilize electricity more wisely.”
Cormetech Inc. dedicated a new factory in Cleveland, Tennessee that will supply TVA and other utilities with selective catalytic reduction systems to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. TVA awarded a $68 million contract…
Cormetech Inc. dedicated a new factory in Cleveland to supply selective catalytic reduction systems that reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. The Tennessee Valley Authority awarded a $68 million contract to Cormetech to install…
“It is a logical assumption that it would be affecting our economies. Now we can actually quantify it.”
“We applaud Congressman Ford's leadership in facilitating a discussion aimed at finding a solution to one of Tennessee's greatest problems: air pollution. Air pollution knows no boundaries and directly affects the Great Smokies National Park. Moreover, TVA is the state's largest polluter and is a federal corporation. Together these are all reasons why we need our federal representatives to provide much-needed leadership to help us find a workable solution.”
“Sulfur dioxide rates from the Tennessee Valley Authority's old coal plants remains a serious problem”
Editorial arguing for stricter air-quality standards at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, citing an Abt Associates study showing that reducing haze could boost tourism by 25 percent and generate $296 million in regional sales. The piece…
“TVA has certainly made some improvements and they are to be applauded for that. But they have continued to burn dirty coal at plants which should have been phased out by now”
“To fix the air pollution and environmental problems associated with coal-fired power plants by trying to nuclear power is sort of like giving up smoking and taking up crack”
The article reports on letters from Tennessee's governor and 11 state attorneys general urging the Bush administration to loosen Clean Air Act enforcement for power plants and factories, particularly regarding New Source Review regulations. Environmental groups…
“We were amazed at how severe her case was. She wanted to let the folks at EPA know”
“Industry should also pay more because they are the biggest beneficiaries of a cleaner environment. If TVA reduces its emissions, that lessens the likelihood these industries will be in an area of noncompliance (for clean air) and forced to make more costly (pollution) upgrades.”
“We need to get something like gasification. We need to retire the dirty old power plants, and then not only would TVA have reliable power from using an abundant resource (coal) that we have here, but they would also be providing leadership to the industry. They would be solving some of the real difficult problems we're dealing with on air pollution.”
“TVA is more than a power company. They need to make sure that they don't just put business-minded people on the board of an agency that has a larger mission. It would be appropriate for us to require that some segment of that board have actual stewardship credentials.”
“This ruling ... effectively means that TVA is allowed to continue to harm public health in the Southeast by emitting excessive levels of harmful air pollution from its coal-fired power plants”
