For $10 million a year, Tennessee Valley deserves better than Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Jeff Lyash  tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/30/for… via Tennessee Lookout Gaby Sarri-Tobar Center for Biological Diversity Sunrise Movement 🌅

The Center's Julie Teel Simmonds hand-delivered 20k of your comments directly to Under Secretary of State Jose Fernandez at #INC4 , the fourth #PlasticsTreaty negotiations in Ottawa.

We've let him know it's not negotiable: Plastic poisons people, and it's time to end the plastic era.

NEW REPORT: Tennessee Valley Authority executives pocket over $3 million from fossil fuel bonuses. Meanwhile families in the Valley are facing polluting gas plants & pipelines, higher bills, and unreliable power.

The board needs to fix this backwards compensation plan!
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TVA ratepayers are footing the bill for CEO Jeff Lyash's outrageous $10.5 million payout. And with that, they're paying for his dangerous fossil fueled plans.

Check out this oped by Sunrise Movement Nashville 🌇🎵's Jonathan Neal and myself in the Tennessee Lookout👇
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“These are the most significant improvements in decades to the NEPA process that analyzes gas pipelines, power plants and other polluting projects.' -Brett Hartl @centerforbiodiv
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NEW REPORT: TVA Execs rake in $3 million in bonuses for building out more gas and coal plants.

Read about this Perverse Pay by Gaby Sarri-Tobar @centerforbiodiv

Big changes to CEO pay can clean up our largest public power utility. #CleanUpTVA

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UPDATE: Every single door of Citibank has been blocked. Bankers locked outside can’t get in.

This is what happens when your bank kills people across the globe by pouring $333 billion into oil, gas and coal.

#CitiDropFossilFuels
#ThePeopleVsCiti

TVA’s reckless and costly gas buildout will pollute communities, raise energy prices, and fuel the #ClimateEmergency . That needs to change NOW.

Join us May 8 in Nashville to demand Tennessee Valley Authority lead the way to a fossil FREE future!

bit.ly/rallyforvalley

The majestic monarch butterfly is but one of over 44,000 species at risk of extinction due to the #ClimateEmergency .

Phasing out fossil fuels is vital to beating the dual climate & extinction crises.

Oped by Tanya Sanerib & me via Common Dreams

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$7bn for Solar ☀️ 'Broad community-based solar is our brightest hope for protecting people and our climate from the scourge of fossil fuels.'

This #EarthDay2024 'It’s great to see President Biden Biden jumpstart this landmark program.' Jean Su 蘇安君 Center for Biological Diversity
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#EarthWeek serves as a reality check that we have the tools to rapidly phase out the burning of fossil fuels driving our climate and extinction emergencies, write Jean Su 蘇安君 and Tanya Sanerib of Center for Biological Diversity.
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The Vessel Project office was destroyed by a tornado that touched down in Lake Charles on yesterday 4/11/24. Some amazing people who've seen the work that we do decided to create this GoFundMe. Donate if you can.
Thanks in advance. gofund.me/fa8d5364

'Updating oil & gas rules for federal lands without setting a timeline for phaseout is climate denial' -Gladys Delgadillo Center for Biological Diversity

Secretary Deb Haaland can still jumpstart the crucial process of phasing out fossil fuels on our public lands
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CA Supreme Court accepts our case challenging rooftop solar rollbacks! ☀️
This is a 'ray of hope for rooftop solar at a time when plummeting installations and massive layoffs are ... jeopardizing California’s climate goals” -@centerforbiodiv's Roger Lin
pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/04/11/cal…

BIG NEWS: The CA Supreme Court just accepted our Center for Biological Diversity case challenging CA's regressive rooftop solar rollbacks.

This case has major implications for distributed solar nationwide and its enormous potential to fight the #climateemergency .

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And then, Congress took action with the introduction of the Increase Rate of Participation Act. This bill would ramp up public participation on the IRP and create more pathways for people to engage with the utility on important decisions.

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A robust community discussion (missing from TVA’s IRP process) helped bring to light community concerns with TVA’s energy trajectory, including the healthy & climate impacts of more gas. People want to see more renewable energy, like rooftop solar!

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With no response from TVA, we held our own public hearing - something the TVA board still has the power to do! The People’s Voice brought together the public and energy experts to discuss the flaws with TVA’s energy planning process.

Check it out: m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Km4SQ…

This came after Center for Biological Diversity Appalachian Voices Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Energy Alabama Vote Solar & more called out TVA for their lack of transparency and meaningful public engagement on an IRP that will impact 10 million people for decades to come. appvoices.org/2023/11/01/tva…

Let’s start with late last week when we feverishly waited for TVA to release its long-awaited 2024 IRP. Surprisingly, TVA put out a press release saying they were delaying the release to allow for “additional analysis … and continued engagement.” Good news?