Sealed Ruling Vacates TVA Kingston Gas Plant EIS, TVA Appeals

A federal judge in Knoxville has thrown out the environmental review behind the Tennessee Valley Authority's $2.5 billion Kingston gas plant — and almost nobody has seen the ruling, because it's sealed. We pulled the public docket and found the whole story hiding in TVA's own court filings. On August 31, U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier granted partial summary judgment to Appalachian Voices, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center. The judge vacated TVA's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Record of Decision (ROD) for the plant, which is replacing nine coal units at the old Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee — the site of the infamous 2008 coal ash spill.

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