Barbour hired as TVA fights pollution rules
“Our hometown utility has jumped in there to use rate-payer money to buy influence to weaken the Clean Air Act. We find that highly offensive”
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Governors band together to fight pollution
“We need action now. We have talked about this enough.”
Group takes plea to Washington
“We need our representatives to stand up now more than ever. They have an opportunity to do that.”
Ozone draws national attention
“These plants are so old that they are exempt from modern air pollution control standards and emit a large amount of air pollution.”
TVA plans $1.5 billion investment in smokestack scrubbers
“This is a significant move. It is really good news for the people of the Tennessee Valley.”
Alabama Power cited as state's biggest polluter
Environmental advocacy groups Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Alabama Environmental Council released a report titled "Toxic Power" charging that Alabama Power Company is the state's biggest polluter, adding 34 million pounds of pollutants annually according…
Smokies officials worried about proposed Kentucky power plant
Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials and environmental groups oppose a proposed 500-megawatt power plant in Kentucky that would burn waste coal, citing concerns about increased air pollution and haze in the park. Local residents and…
Protecting the Smokies
An editorial in the Knoxville News-Sentinel warns of worsening air pollution in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which issued its first ozone advisory on March 8, 2000—the earliest date in park history. The piece advocates for…
TVA keeping up with power needs
TVA reports it has successfully forecast summer electricity demand and is prepared to meet regional power needs through Labor Day using improved plant reliability, new gas turbines, and potential power purchases. The federal utility has not…
Group to sue TVA over coal plants
“The environmental community is frustrated by TVA's unwillingness at this point to try to negotiate a settlement with EPA. The only time TVA has taken action to clean up its pollution has been in the face of regulatory or legal action.”
Observers differ on need to expand TVA board
“There is no independent oversight of the TVA board. (Adding board members) does nothing to address that issue. . . . It's unfortunate that they didn't go ahead and fix that problem.”
Plan to reduce Smokies haze supported in public hearing
“The significant thing about this plan is that it's based not on tons of pollutants to be reduced at the smokestacks, but on changes in visibility, improvements you can actually see.”
EPA: Environment, health groups sue
“The current EPA is in no hurry to institute these standards, and yet the health implications from not enforcing these rules is something that can't any longer be ignored”
TVA readies Sequoyah to make bomb material
“For TVA and the Department of Energy to continue to go forward at this point and spend millions of dollars on this plan is a waste of taxpayers' dollars and is simply a matter of bureaucratic momentum”
TVA urged to clean coal-fired facilities
“This has very real implications for TVA, and most importantly, it has implications for us who have to breathe and for the Great Smoky Mountains”