WASHINGTON -- In a political role reversal, Republicans are blasting President Barack Obama's plan to consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority,...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Obama administration's 2014 budget is calling for a strategic review of the Tennessee Valley Authority, opening the possi...
By James B. Kelleher Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Tennessee Valley Authority is legally responsible for a 2008 accident that sent 5 million ...
The bottom line is simple: replacing dirty coal with energy efficiency makes sound economic sense and saves lives.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is playing with fire -- literally. The federal government's nuclear industry watchdog recently granted the Browns Ferry plant in Alabama an extra year to comply with agency fire regulations.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Valley Authority has reported finding elevated levels of radioactive tritium in a groundwater sample from a new on...
Just days before the three-year anniversary of the devastating dike failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Environment...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A federal judge on Thursday began hearing from both sides in the legal battle over whether the Tennessee Valley Authority should p...
ATLANTA -- Federal regulators ordered in-depth inspections Tuesday at a nuclear power plant run by the Tennessee Valley Authority in northern Alabama ...
April 28, 2011 12:47:21 AM By Peggy Gargis BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - Powerful storms cut power and knocked out nuclear units as they tore ...
Big Oil and its proxies hate alternative energy and energy efficiency. Do you think they'd be kicking and screaming to stop progress if they didn't see a threat to their bottom line?
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Did you ever wonder why some of America's greatest public works projects were accomplished during its worst depression? President Obama has the right idea when he calls for major investment in 21st Century infrastructure.
The comment period for the EPA's proposed coal ash safeguards is winding down, with the deadline being next Friday. Have you submitted your comment yet?
What is coal ash and why should we be concerned?
This is the latest in our series of community coal ash profiles. This was written by Sierra Club Apprentice Philip Hawes. Tennessee's Emory River has ...
Failure to act in a swift, decisive and effective manner will have severe environmental and economic repercussions. Part of any action plan must be breaking our dependence on antiquated conventional power generation.
Residents of Tennessee might have a few things to say about the impacts of coal ash, since the state suffered the worst coal ash disaster in U.S. history less than two years ago.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority has been hit with penalties totaling $11.5 million for the December 2008 coal ash spill at o...
Now is the moment to go one major step further than the Tennessee Valley Authority did: It is time to create an American Energy NASA.
Obama should seize this moment by establishing our own National Oil Trust. It could be modeled after our experience with the TVA and that of the world's third largest energy exporter, Norway's National Oil Trust.
The revenues from oil and gas deposits should be channeled toward developing alternative energy sources as the cornerstone of a viable program for breaking our increasingly dangerous dependency on fossil fuels.
WASHINGTON — (AP) The toxic leftovers from burning coal for power are sitting in nearly 600 sites in 35 states, according to a federal survey re...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority failed for more than 20 years to heed warnings that might have prevented a massive coal ash sp...
