Court Orders TVA to Clean Up Smokestack Pollution
Posted January 14, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
My colleague John Walke passed along what he dubbed "stunning, positive" news.
A federal judge today ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority must reduce emissions at four of its coal-fired power plants in Tennessee and Alabama because their windblown air pollution threatens health and tourism in North Carolina. Read all about it.
Coincidentally, one of the TVA facilities subject to the decision is none other than the Kingston Fossil Plant where the unregulated coal ash waste pond ruptured and polluted communities downstream with a billion gallons of toxic sludge.
Sweet, sweet justice. Now all we need is for EPA to get busy regulating -- once and for all -- coal ash waste as hazardous.
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Alex Brown — Jan 15 2009 06:40 PM
Its not like its really doing anything that isn't already done, Bull Run already has a scrubber, the Kingston scrubber is darn near done, john Sevier was already in planning stages, Widows Creek 7&8 already have scrubber, and Widows Creek 1-6 will likely be shut down instead of getting scrubbers.
in other words NO NEW SCRUBBERS will be built as a result of this. Its just a empty gesture to make environmentalists happy and make TVA do pretty much nothing it wasn't already doing to begin with