TVA dispute over trees blooms anew

While one sits in a tree nearby, an osprey sits on its nest in a stand at the Tennessee River Garden property in Marion County onTuesday, Mar. 16, 2016, near TVA's Raccoon Mountain pump storage facility in Chattanooga, Tenn. Efforts are under way to establish active osprey nests in the downtown Chattanooga area. While one sits in a tree nearby, an osprey sits on its nest in a stand at the Tennessee River Garden property in Marion County onTuesday, Mar. 16, 2016, near TVA's Raccoon Mountain pump storage facility in Chattanooga, Tenn. Efforts are under way to establish active osprey nests in the downtown Chattanooga area.

By The Knoxville News Sentinel November 17, 2016 1 min read

A lawsuit against TVA over its tree-cutting policy gained new life Thursday, thanks to a federal appeals court ruling.

The lawsuit filed by Donna Sherwood and others against the Tennessee Valley Authority accused the agency of following an unnecessarily aggressive policy on clearing the right of way under TVA power lines without allowing public input.

A federal judge last year dismissed the lawsuit as moot because TVA said it had dropped the policy, known as the “15-foot rule.” Thursday’s ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision on the grounds that TVA failed to prove the agency had scrapped the practice.

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