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.
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.
The University of Tennessee is among America’s largest collections failing to return Native American human remains
As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. Many of the institutions continue to hold these today — and in some cases resist their return.
TVA is officially building a massive gas plant in Middle Tennessee
The Tennessee Valley Authority has just chosen to burn fossil fuels for several more decades. Again.
The Biden Administration could halt TVA’s gas plans. A petition is asking for just that.
On Thursday, more than 100 organizations submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency urging the agency to move the Tennessee Valley Authority’s decision on whether to build a new natural gas plant to the executive branch.
TVA bet on gas for Arctic storms. It backfired.
Last Friday’s rolling blackouts are adding to questions about TVA’s reliance on fossil fuels during inclement weather.
Lawmakers want answers after TVA imposes rolling blackouts on customers during winter storm
As if dealing with freezing temperatures and frozen pipes weren’t enough, Middle Tennessee also had to endure intermittent power outages over the weekend, leaving customers and lawmakers frustrated.
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