Tennessee Valley Authority

Elevated Levels Of Radioactive Material Found At Nuclear Plant

AP | Posted 12.21.2011

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Valley Authority has reported finding elevated levels of radioactive tritium in a groundwater sample from a new on...

Matt Sledge

Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.14.2011

Just days before the three-year anniversary of the devastating dike failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Environment...

TVA Ash Spill Trial Underway

AP | By BILL POOVEY | Posted 11.15.2011

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A federal judge on Thursday began hearing from both sides in the legal battle over whether the Tennessee Valley Authority should p...

Alabama Nuclear Plant Cited For "Significant" Safety Problems

AP | By RAY HENRY | Posted 07.10.2011

ATLANTA -- Federal regulators ordered in-depth inspections Tuesday at a nuclear power plant run by the Tennessee Valley Authority in northern Alabama ...

Storms Cause Power Outages In Southern States, Knock Out Nuclear Units In Alabama

Reuters | Peggy Gargis | Posted 06.27.2011

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 ...

Our Responsibility to the Earth

Michael Brune | Posted 06.21.2011

Michael Brune

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?

Green News Report: April 21, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.21.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's hard...

Green News Report: April 19, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.19.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Big victo...

From Depression to Public Inspiration

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Kuttner

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.

New Coal Ash Hotline and Video

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Bruce Nilles

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?

Coal Ash: Let Your Voice Be Heard

Harmon Leon | Posted 05.25.2011

Harmon Leon

What is coal ash and why should we be concerned?

The Aftermath of the TVA Coal Ash Disaster

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Bruce Nilles

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 ...

Alabama Nuke in Hot Water

Kyle Rabin | Posted 05.25.2011

Kyle Rabin

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.

EPA Ignores TN and AL on Coal Ash, Nearest Hearing Is 260 Miles From TVA Disaster Site

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Brendan DeMelle

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.

Tennessee Valley Authority Fined $11.5 Million For 'Unprecedented' Coal Ash Spill

AP | BILL POOVEY | Posted 05.25.2011

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority has been hit with penalties totaling $11.5 million for the December 2008 coal ash spill at o...

The Oil Spill as America's Wake up Call: The Urgent Need for an American Energy NASA

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

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's Brave Decison to Drill Offshore

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

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.

Oil Spewing in the Gulf: Now Is the Time for the National Renewable Energy Trust

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

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.

Federal Survey Finds Coal Ash Sites In 35 States

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

TVA Ignored Ash Spill Warnings FOR 20 YEARS

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

We Are Here For Your Protection

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Allison Kilkenny

Saying something is for the "protection" of the American people is usually code for "covering our own asses." The recent coal ash spill in Tennessee was 100 times worse than the Exxon-Valdez spill.

TVA Sheepishly Investing In Renewables Now

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — In the face of looming legislative pressures for cleaner energy, the nation's largest public utility agreed Thursday to bu...

TVA Spill Victims Get Bids For Their Houses

wbir.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Nearly two months after the fact, the Tennessee Valley Authority is still only beginning to sort out the damage caused by a massive spill of toxic coa...

Mike Duncan, TVA's New Chairman

Yahoo! Finance | Posted 05.25.2011

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Though it has tried to fight an image as a refuge for the politically connected, the leadership of the Tennessee Valley Autho...

A View to a Spill: Coal Ash Slideshow

Rob Perks | Posted 05.25.2011

Rob Perks

It's one thing for a group of scientists to suggest turning lemons into lemonade in the case of the TVA spill, but the folks living this nightmare don't seem to like the sour taste. Who can blame them?