SELC Weighs Options After TVA Ignores EPA’s Gas Plant Climate Fears

Environmentalists are weighing a lawsuit -- and pressing the Biden administration to intervene -- to block the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from building a new natural gas power plant after TVA ignored EPA’s “substantial” concerns that it underestimated the plant’s climate and other impacts and failed to consider Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) incentives. The TVA Board “still has the power to reverse this reckless decision. We hope federal leaders will urge Board members to scrap this proposed gas plant and...