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20 Sep 2010, 7:28 am by Steven M. Taber
According to a press release from the groups, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) issued a new draft permit after the suit was filed that would, for the first time, authorize selenium discharges but impose stringent limits on the amount of those discharges. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 10:54 am by Carter Wood
In a brief filed by the Solicitor General on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Administration called for the Supreme Court to vacate the circuit court's ruling and remand the case for further proceedings. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 8:43 am by Steven M. Taber
A week and a half ago, their blood came to an even more vigorous boil after the administration sided with the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal entity, in a lawsuit over power plant carbon emissions. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 4:01 am by Sean Wajert
Thus, the case is not positioned like the Second Circuit appeal in which the federal government (Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government-owned company), recently urged the Supreme Court to overturn a court of appeals decision that allowed Connecticut and several other states to move forward in their suit seeking greenhouse gas emissions reductions under a federal common law nuisance theory. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 8:29 pm by Lyle Denniston
Tennessee Valley Authority (Circuit docket 09-1623) — a case that attracted 62 friends-of-court, including 24 states, reflecting widespread interest in it. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 3:35 pm by David Doniger
America Electric Power, eight states, New York City, and three private land trusts sued five electric power companies – American Electric Power, Southern Company, Duke Energy, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Xcel – that are the nation’s largest emitters of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 9:24 am by Steven M. Taber
., direct MoDOT to comply immediately with the terms of the respective permits for the two highway construction projects, which were issued to MoDOT by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) under the authority of the federal Clean Water Act. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 6:34 am
In an amicus brief (.pdf) filed on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority on August 24, U.S. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 4:21 am by Sean Wajert
The federal government (Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government-owned company), last week urged the Supreme Court to overturn a court of appeals decision that allowed Connecticut and several other states to move forward in their suit seeking greenhouse gas emissions reductions under a federal common law nuisance theory. [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 6:32 pm by Mike Aylward
In an amicus brief filed on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority on August 24, U.S. [read post]
27 Aug 2010, 11:58 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Adler) The environmental law community is buzzing over a brief filed by the Solicitor General’s Office this week on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority in American Electric Power v. [read post]
27 Aug 2010, 7:26 am by Anna Christensen
This week the Acting Solicitor General filed a brief on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority in American Electric Power Co. v. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 12:03 pm by Jeffrey B. Gracer
The brief, submitted on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”), a defendant in the Second Circuit case, Connecticut v. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 2:56 pm by Vicki Shiah
., its subsidiary American Electric Power Service Corporation, Cinergy Corporation (since merged into Duke Energy), Southern Company, Xcel Energy, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 2:32 pm by Bridget M. Lee
On July 26th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit brought by the State of North Carolina against the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”) alleging that interstate air emissions from TVA power plants create a public nuisance. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 11:15 am by Steven M. Taber
Thornburg had ordered the Tennessee Valley Authority to accelerate its planned emission control improvements at the four plants — a demand that TVA said would cost an additional $1 billion. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 9:27 am by Steven M. Taber
North Carolina’s injunction against four Tennessee Valley Authority power plants in Alabama and Tennessee, which required the immediate installation of costly emissions controls, was overturned by the U.S. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 1:17 pm by WIMS
 The Appeals Court explains that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) appealed an injunction requiring immediate installation of emissions controls at four TVA electricity generating plants in Alabama and Tennessee. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 1:08 pm by Steve
TVA, the Fourth Circuit in an opinion by Judge Wilkinson joined by Judges Shedd and Niemeyer held that North Carolina's common law of nuisance could not be applied to require the Tennessee Valley Authority to spend a billion dollars to retrofit its coal-powered generation plants in East Tennessee to comply with North Carolina's emissions laws.Judge Wilkinson wrote, by way of introduction:"If allowed to stand, the injunction would encourage courts to… [read post]