TVA appeals judge's ruling to clean up emissions

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Source: Tennessean

TVA has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that its air emissions are a nuisance in North Carolina and should be cleaned up sooner rather than later.

The agency says its coal-fired power plants are in compliance with their Clean Air permits and that the order requires an unrealistic schedule. The cost could be $1 billion.

North Carolina argued that pollution from TVA plants is causing asthma and other illnesses and deaths in that state as well as is obscuring scenic views in the Great Smoky Mountains between that state and Tennessee.

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The court ordered TVA to upgrade or install scrubbers to reduce sulfur dioxide and to add equipment to reduce nitrogen oxide at its Bull Run, Kingston and John Sevier plants in East Tennessee and at Widows Creek in North Alabama.

Read more: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090529/NEWS01/90529025/TVA+appeals+judge+s+ruling+to+clean+up+emissions