TVA Bungled Gas Plant Environmental Review, Lawsuit Says (1)

The Tennessee Valley Authority didn’t thoroughly evaluate how its decision to build a new gas-fired power plant would affect the environment and power customers, conservation groups said in a new suit Thursday.

The TVA didn’t take a hard look at project impacts per the National Environmental Policy Act, the plaintiffs Appalachian Voices, the Sierra Club, and the Center for Biological Diversity told the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

The TVA—a federally owned electric utility that operates the nation’s largest public power system—in June 2021 proposed to retire one of its coal power plants in the state ...