Energy Report

A digest of regional energy news

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

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

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

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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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

Gas Buildout Continues Across Southeast

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

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Attendees outside the first open house that TVA held in Cheatham County in June 2023. Nearly 400 people showed up. Photo by Angie Mummaw

TVA Pursues Multiple Methane Gas Power Plants and Pipelines

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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