The Energy Innovation Act will cut pollution and put money in our pockets | Opinion
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett should support legislation that would result in carbon dividends being paid to Americans while saving lives.
Mark Reynolds and Jan Berry
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Mark Reynolds is the executive director of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, and Jan Berry is its Tennessee state coordinator.
“Climate change action without carbon pricing is like running with shoe laces untied, much harder,” explained Dr. Charles Sims, the director of the Energy and Environment Program for the University of Tennessee s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy in Knoxville. “I want to learn more about it,” said U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett.
TVA Files Plan To Study Retirement Of Cumberland Coal Plant Tuesday, May 11, 2021
The Tennessee Valley Authority on Tuesday submitted notice of its intent to file an Environmental Impact Statement for the retirement of the Cumberland Fossil Plant in Cumberland City, Tn. Through the upcoming EIS process, TVA will identify the timeline to retire the plant’s two coal units and if any replacement generation is needed.
“This is an opportunity for TVA to show that it is listening to the people of the Tennessee Valley when they ask for clean technologies such as solar power and battery storage,” said JoAnn McIntosh, a clean energy advocate with the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club based in Clarksville, Tn. “Cumberland is one of the nation’s largest and most polluting coal plants, releasing over 8 million tons of carbon pollution into the air each year, as well as 20 times more mercury into the water than any other U.S. coal plant. It makes no environmental or economi
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Chattanooga Times Free Press
May 7 This story was updated Thursday, May 6, 2021, at 6:35 p.m. with more information.
Eighty-eight years after the Tennessee Valley Authority was created to harness the power of the Tennessee River, America s biggest public utility is turning to the sun, splitting atoms and natural gas plants to power its future.
The power shift outlined in a new strategic guide endorsed Thursday by TVA directors will phase out coal-fired power generation by 2035 to help limit the emission of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. TVA plans next week to give the required notice to begin the process of shutting down the two-unit Cumberland Fossil plant in Cumberland City, Tennessee TVA s biggest coal plant and by July TVA should give notice of its plans to close the nine-unit Kingston fossil plant in Kingston, Tennessee.
Evergy moving away from coal, but health advocates say too slowly
By Allison Kite
Missouri Independent
Evergy, an electric supplier to about 600,000 customers in western Missouri, says it will retire its coal power plant in Lawrence, Kansas, by the end of 2023.
The utility, which serves Eastern Jackson County outside Independence, revealed its plan to regulators in a filing with the Missouri Public Service Commission. The “integrated resource plan” lays out Evergy’s next few years in capital expenses and pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045.
To that end, the company says it will retire “nearly all” of its remaining coal generation by 2040.
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Ivy Main is a writer, lawyer, and environmental advocate, and volunteers extensively with the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club. In addition to lobbying in the Virginia General Assembly for stronger clean energy policies, she writes a blog, Power for the People VA, about energy policy in Virginia. Since 2012 she has also served at the national level as a member of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign leadership team.