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12 May 2011, 3:47 pm by Gabe Johnson-Karp
  The private power companies argue that the plaintiffs lack Article III standing, while Petitioner Tennessee Valley Authority, which is a power company owned by the federal government, takes the position that the EPA’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gases following the Massachusetts decision (in fact, those efforts actually came after the initiation of the present suit) require a decision that, prudentially, the case is not proper for judicial decision. [read post]
2 May 2011, 4:33 am by Joanne Zimolzak
  In 2006, North Carolina, on behalf of its citizens, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and alleged that TVA’s coal-fired power plants were a public nuisance. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 1:02 am
Underwood — who argued for the states and conservation groups that brought the global warming case — that the emissions standards sought in the litigation “sounds like the kind of thing that EPA does,” reported Law360.At issue is a 2009 Second Circuit ruling that revived the climate change public nuisance lawsuit against four power companies and the Tennessee Valley Authority over carbon emissions.There has yet to be a ruling on the merits of the… [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 1:41 pm by Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz
  As explained in a prior post, the Obama Administration also argued for reversal of the Second Circuit decision on behalf of defendant Tennessee Valley Authority, albeit on different grounds than the other defendants. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 1:22 am by David Doniger
  The suit charges five gigantic electric power companies – American Electric Power, Southern Company, Duke Energy, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Xcel Energy – with contributing to a massive “public nuisance” by knowingly emitting 650 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, despite having the technology and know-how to significantly reduce their emissions. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 6:00 am by Steven Gillard
Following the nuclear crisis in Japan, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced that, even though its six nuclear power plants are not in earthquake-prone areas, it may invest significantly in making them less vulnerable to “natural and man-made disasters. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 4:56 pm by Lyle Denniston
The five were the Tennessee Valley Authority, the government’s major power-generating entity, plus four major electricity-generating companies: American Electric Power Co., Cinergy Corp. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 11:13 am by David Hattery
On April 14, 2011, the EPA announced the settlement of a twelve year dispute with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) over Clean Air Act violations. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 5:27 am by Frank O'Donnell, Clean Air Watch
Here is his latest:from Environment & Energy Daily The Kentucky congressman who oversees the Clean Air Act had harsh words yesterday for the Tennessee Valley Authority's new plan to clean up the air pollution from its coal-fired power plants.The board of the federally owned utility moved yesterday to approve a deal with U.S. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 11:59 am by Jenna Greene
The Tennessee Valley Authority today agreed to spend billions of dollars to settle Environment Protection Agency charges that it violated the Clean Air Act at 11 coal-fired power plants in Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee. [read post]
9 Apr 2011, 3:48 pm
I recently spoke to a lovely young lady with about a much debt as would have purchased her a very, very nice house in Paradise Valley, who has a Doctorate from a distinguished University in Esperanto Grammar (not really the facts, but close enough for government work). [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 11:30 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
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16 Mar 2011, 4:27 pm by Pace Law School Library
Tennessee Valley Authority: the problem with state nuisance law in the regulation of out-of-state emissions standards. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 3:49 am by Russ Bensing
  Back in 1939, the Supreme Court had rejected a challenge by local electricity distributors to the act establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 1:44 pm by Lyle Denniston
Tennessee Valley Authority, the Circuit Court ruled that Bond could not raise her Tenth Amendment claim; in other words, she lacked “standing” under Article III. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 9:32 pm by Richard Frank
Now to the back-stories and legal gossip: first, the litigating states (including California) and environmental interests were sorely disappointed when the Obama Administration’s Solicitor General–representing the Tennessee Valley Authority–filed a brief urging the Court to grant certiorari in the case. [read post]
13 Feb 2011, 8:50 pm by Glenn Reynolds
Some early efforts may be in my neck of the woods: “The Tennessee Valley Authority has publicly discussed the idea of placing several small modular reactors on a site adjacent to the Clinch River just outside Oak Ridge, Tenn., where 30 years ago the government tried to build a breeder reactor, which would have produced more fuel than it consumes. [read post]