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Fuel Fix TVA will reduce its coal operations to settle lawsuit
Bear in mind that Obama has stacked the TVA Board with radical environmentalists.
The Tennessee Valley Authority over the next five years will shutter operations that account for about 16 percent if its coal-fired capacity to settle lawsuits from several states over air quality, its board said Thursday.
TVA chief executive Tom Kilgore said the nations largest public utility will also pay a $10 million civil penalty under the agreement with the states, the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups.
The shutdowns starting in 2012 include all 10 units at Johnsonville Fossil Plant and two units at John Sevier Fossil Plant in Tennessee, along with six units at Widows Creek Fossil Plant in Alabama. Kilgore said the moves will phase out 2,700 megawatts of TVAs 17,000 megawatts of coal-fired capacity by 2017.
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This is the largest coal retirement agreement the nation has ever seen, said Bruce Niles, the Sierra Clubs deputy conservation director.
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The agreement also calls for TVA to spend $350 million on environmental projects over the next five years.
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It requires TVA to invest up to $5 billion on new and upgraded state-of-the-art pollution controls ....
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Kilgore said the timing of his decision to stop the legal fighting that began in 2009 was not related to the change in presidential administrations and the prospect of new environmental enforcement.
But Niles said for eight years the Bush administration refused to enforce the Clean Air Act. Under Jacksons watch at the EPA, they are playing catchup.
Bear in mind that Obama has stacked the TVA Board with radical environmentalists.
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