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2,441 mentions for advocacy area: Utility Decarbonization
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An editorial in the Asheville Citizen-Times urges Senator Elizabeth Dole to support federal multi-pollutant legislation to reduce air pollution from power plants in the Southeast. The piece highlights SACE's Great Smoky Mountains Clean Air Campaign, which…
The article covers a Tennessee air quality control board hearing on whether the state should adopt the EPA's revised "new source review" pollution rule. Environmental groups including SACE opposed the change, arguing it would weaken air…
“Large coal, gas and nuclear interests have had their way in Congress. Clean air, public safety and consumer protections have been absolutely neglected in this bill.”
“Climate change is the most challenging issue facing our world this century. The United States, as the sole remaining superpower and producer of a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, has a duty to take a leadership role in solving this problem.”
“The issue is complicated, and it's a real challenge because while there are advantages of these clean coal technologies, it's difficult to think about a type of coal refinery right next to a nuclear plant”
“It's a shell game that still requires TVA to pay for cost overruns and delays”
A federal appeals court upheld the EPA's stricter eight-hour ozone standard, intensifying pressure on the Birmingham area which already fails to meet the current one-hour standard. The new regulations, expected to take effect in late 2004,…
A League of Women Voters of Tennessee member recounts participation in Clean Energy Days 2002 in Washington, DC, where SACE and LWV representatives lobbied Congress for a renewable energy portfolio standard. The article discusses the disconnect…
“It seems to me they're not serious about reducing it”
“They're taking an old nuclear reactor that has not operated for 17 years, and they're going to run it longer and harder than it was designed for. It originally had a design life of 40 years, which they want to extend for 20 years, and they want to force it to produce 1,300 megawatts when it was designed for 1,000. It's a prescription for a serious problem.”
“no other utility could get away with doing this – making a $1.8 billion decision based on staff recommendation”
“What does Southern Co. want? They want TVA's big industrial customers.”
“Energy efficiency programs, however, could substantially reduce that demand and thus the need for new lines.”
“What is missing is not the technology. It's the political will.”
“TVA's position shortsighted because the agency will need to build new coal plants eventually and coal gasification is an environmentally superior process. He said TVA should be "getting on that learning curve" now.”
