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The Energy Report

Support For Mine Problems in Jeopardy; Groups Challenge South Fork Coal

By Rance Garrison | July 23, 2025 | 0
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Energy Report stories about Citizens’ ability to get help with mine problems in jeopardy and groups challenge South Fork Coal’s actions in West Virginia.

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EPA Plans to Roll Back Air and Water Protections

By Dan Radmacher | July 23, 2025 | 0
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Last spring, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its intention to roll back dozens of vital environmental health protections, calling it the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”

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Law Slashes Renewable Energy, Offers Benefits to Coal and Gas

By Jen Lawhorne | July 23, 2025 | 0
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On July 4, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a budget reconciliation package with sweeping impacts on many issue areas, particularly health and the environment. 

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Gas Buildout Continues Across Southeast

By Dan Radmacher | July 23, 2025 | 0
TVA imploded the Bull Run coal power plant’s smokestack on June 28. The smokestack spewed a final blast of toxic dust over Claxton, Tenn., where its unscrubbed fly ash poisoned the air for decades before a 2011 Clean Air Act settlement. The power plant ceased operations in 2023. Photo by John Todd Waterman

A massive buildout of methane gas infrastructure in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee is taking place across the Southeast.

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TVA Pursues Multiple Methane Gas Power Plants and Pipelines

By Jen Lawhorne | July 23, 2025 | 0
Attendees outside the first open house that TVA held in Cheatham County in June 2023. Nearly 400 people showed up. Photo by Angie Mummaw

The Tennessee Valley Authority is planning the biggest methane gas buildout of any utility this decade — nine new plants since 2020.

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Biden Admin Finalizes Silica Rule Update

By Dan Radmacher | May 12, 2024 | 0

A new federal rule would cut miners’ exposure to silica dust, but miners and their advocates have concerns about whether industry will follow the new rule under the current enforcement mechanisms.

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Reducing Methane Emissions from Wells Could Create Tens of Thousands of Jobs

By AV's Intern Team | May 12, 2024 | 0

Decommissioning unplugged oil and gas wells and reducing emissions at operating wells in accordance with new federal guidelines would create tens of thousands of jobs across four states, according to a recent report.

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TVA Moves Forward with Kingston Gas Plant

By Lorelei Goff | May 12, 2024 | 0

Ignoring EPA concerns and calls from lawmakers for more transparency, Tennessee Valley Authority moved forward with plans to convert the Kingston Fossil Plant from coal to methane.

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EPA Action to Prevent Power Plant Pollution

By Dan Radmacher | May 12, 2024 | 0

New EPA rules to regulate pollution from coal and gas power plants could have major impacts on public health and the environment.

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Opposition to Proposed Prison on Mine

By Willie Dodson | May 12, 2024 | 0

Environmental risks and negative social, economic and mental-health impacts to prisoners and communities are among the concerns voiced over a plan to build a prison on top of a former mine.

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