Months after the Tennessee Valley Authority committed to building a gas plant and pipeline in Middle Tennessee, the federal utility is proposing another 1.5-gigawatt fossil fuel project in East Tennessee.
The Tennessee legislature blocked climate action this year — again. And other environmental bills you may have missed.
While some states are confronting climate change head on, Tennessee has been blocking actions that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tennessee raises felony charge for ‘interfering’ with oil and gas pipeline projects
In the past four years, Tennessee has passed multiple laws aimed to protect fossil fuel projects from community challenges, like the law that preempts local governments from blocking fossil fuel projects, or the one that allows the state to boycott banks that divest from fossil fuels.
Tennessee deferred from EPA’s smog reduction plan
Smog has historically been the term for smoke and fog. Today, the definition has a little more accountability. Smog is produced when sunlight mixes with pollution from the fossil fuel industry, cars and factories, and the technical term for it is ground-level ozone pollution.
Is natural gas ‘clean energy’? Tennessee lawmakers want you to think so.
Natural gas is “better than” coal. This refrain is a classic argument for the fossil fuel industry, and it is how Tennessee lawmakers are persuading the state legislature to rebrand natural gas as “clean energy.”
TVA’s coal pollution causes 241 premature deaths each year, study finds
According to a new report from the Sierra Club, TVA’s remaining coal plants could cause more than 2,000 premature deaths in the next decade.
EPA might tighten an air pollution rule. Nashville would have to change.
The Environmental Protection Agency may soon crack down on the deadliest form of air pollution: fine particulate matter.
Tennessee residents are tired of coal ash pollution. TDEC could help.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is retiring its Bull Run Fossil Plant by the end of this year. But the utility still has not announced a plan to deal with its coal ash.
TVA chooses panel to review last month’s Arctic blackouts
TVA has selected three people with longstanding ties to the utility to conduct a review of coal and gas failures during an Arctic storm in late December.
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