Conservation groups sue over federal utility’s plan to replace coal plant with gas
Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the nation’s largest public utility from replacing a Tennessee coal-burning power plant with one using natural gas. For the Cumberland plant, the utility’s review process compared the costs and benefits of two types of natural gas plants as well as a solar array with battery storage. A similar lawsuit seeks to block a gas-burning TVA plant at the retired coal-burning Johnsonville Fossil Plant, claiming the utility violated federal law last year by failing to properly assess the environmental and climate impacts. Last month, TVA announced plans to build a new natural gas plant to replace its coal-burning Kingston Fossil Plant — the site of a massive coal ash spill in 2008 — one day after the Biden administration proposed strict new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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