Federal regulators have signed off on a new methane gas pipeline in Middle Tennessee.
Tracking Tennessee’s fossil fuel expansion in 2023 — and a few climate wins
Earth is about to finish the hottest year on record — and it was marked by deadly heat, droughts, floods and disease outbreaks. Fossil fuels are the main driver — but that industry expanded in Tennessee this year.
TVA proposes 8th gas plant in 3 years
The reliability of gas is under greater scrutiny after blackouts related to recent Arctic blasts, like Winter Storm Elliott in 2022 and Winter Storm Uri in 2021. TVA had generation issues in at least 10 of its 17 gas plants last year.
Tennessee is vulnerable to winter blackouts. Here is a big reason why.
Last December, the Tennessee Valley Authority said it was prepared to handle 34 gigawatts of demand. When an Arctic blast dropped temperatures right before Christmas, demand peaked at about 33.4 GW.
Your electricity bill is going up. Why? TVA is only telling part of the $15B answer.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will spend $15 billion on capital projects, like new generation and transmission, in the next three years. On what, exactly?
Tennessee has 300 leaky, ‘orphaned’ oil and gas wells. A handful are about to be plugged for safety.
Abandoned gas wells — essentially deep holes in Earth’s crust that slowly spit out methane — will soon be capped in one of Tennessee’s federally-protected lands. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced funding Thursday to plug orphaned oil and gas wells in national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other public lands and waters.
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