It looks like TVA, the owners of coal ash ponds that are seeping contaminants into drinking water and streams including the major sludge overflow that caused the December 22nd spill in Harriman, Tennessee, may, finally, be forced to clean up its Dirty Coal act.
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Southern Studies reports --
.The Tennessee Valley Authority is facing mounting demands to leave behind its dirty energy past and become a clean energy leader.
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Last week, a federal judge denied the federal utility's appeal for more time to install pollution controls on coal-fired power plants that are dirtying North Carolina's air, the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times reports. U.S. District Court Judge Lacy Thornburg decided against giving TVA more time to address emissions from four coal-fired power plants within 100 miles of North Carolina.
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The current Republican TVA Board has four opening that President Obama will fill shortly and appearances are that his appointments will be more environmentally responsible.
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This speaks volumes about our need to discard nuclear from consideration and get on with the task of powering our nation with renewables --
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Back in the 1970s, TVA had planned to build two reactors at the plant -- Bellefonte 1 and 2 -- but ditched the plans after spending some $4 billion.
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