Former TVA Chairman S. David Freeman calls for end to agency's nuclear building program
“Three billion dollars of mess-up is a lot to have happen on your watch”
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Coal Ash Limbo: Groups File Lawsuit to Move EPA While Congress Moves to Restrict Agency Authority
Environmental and public health groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, filed a lawsuit to compel the EPA to regulate coal ash waste following the 2008 Kingston TVA plant disaster. The suit challenges EPA's delay…
Lawmakers join nuclear advance fee lawsuit
Four Florida state lawmakers have joined a lawsuit filed by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy challenging the constitutionality of a law requiring utility customers to pay in advance for nuclear plants that may never be…
Watts Bar reactor delayed again
“There must be accountability for this huge mistake. It's just another chapter in TVA's long history of dramatic delays and nuclear cost overruns. For some reason, TVA keeps getting burned at the nuclear oven but keeps going back. You think they would learn that nuclear is not the way to go.”
Delay Sought by Environmental Groups for Reactors in Georgia
Nine environmental groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Friends of the Earth, announced plans to seek a court delay of Southern Company's $14 billion construction of two nuclear reactors at the Vogtle plant…
Should Consumers Pay Up Front To Build Nuclear Plants?
“The … process has become little more than a pro forma session allowing the PSC to agree to the utilities' requests for more funds”
Coal Ash Regulation: Another Front on the ‘War Against Coal’
An op-ed by Lance Brown of the Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy criticizes environmental groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, for filing a lawsuit to force EPA regulation of coal ash as hazardous waste.…
Daufuskie Island Conservancy "Offshore Wind Energy"
“Learn about the history of offshore wind energy, local wind sources, economic and environmental issues pertaining to wind energy and concerns about and barriers to developing offshore wind energy”
Major Court Ruling Forces Nuclear Waste Disposal Review
A federal appeals court unanimously ruled that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must re-evaluate the environmental impacts of nuclear waste storage and disposal, vacating the NRC's Waste Confidence Decision. NRDC attorney Geoff Fettus, representing environmental petitioners including…
TVA plan to produce tritium back on track
“The fact that there is a nuclear power plant owned by the federal government that is producing material for a nuclear weapon, I think that would probably make it a better target for a terrorist”
Progress Energy nuclear project to take longer, cost more
“We are shocked that these projects are even being considered”
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Suspends New Licenses, Renewals
“We're pleased with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's ruling; it is long overdue. Nuclear power is not a clean generating source when it creates long-lived radioactive and toxic waste that has no long-term safe disposal technology in place. We believe it is appropriate to halt nuclear licensing decisions and stop creating an inter-generational debt of nuclear waste that will burden our children and grandchildren for centuries to come.”
Officials: Backlash Spreading in Florida Against "Nuclear Cost Recovery" Financing Scheme for Proposed Reactors Unlikely to Ever Be Built
“It is sad that the PSC appears willing to let the power companies unfairly tax Florida families and businesses on an increasingly weak assumption they will build new nuclear reactors sometime next decade. While this is a great deal for Progress Energy and FPL's shareholders and executives, it is horrible for Florida consumers and businesses. We believe that this law gives entirely too much discretion to the PSC, which has been arbitrarily approving everything the utilities have asked for each year. Therefore, we are asking the Florida State Supreme Court to protect consumers against this nuclear power tax scam by declaring the law unconstitutional.”
Tom Kilgore stepping down from TVA post
“I think he is personally committed to seeing these plants retired. I think he understands that the time for a number of these plants has come and gone.”
Environmental groups sue Santee Cooper over Grainger coal ash
Environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy filed suit against Santee Cooper to address arsenic contamination from unlined coal ash lagoons at the Grainger coal-fired power plant. The lawsuit seeks removal of coal ash…