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Free Press Weekend Dialogue: Don’t quiet the voice of a public utility’s public

Staff File Photo By Daniel Dassow / From left, TVA board members Randy Jones, Bobby Klein, Jeff Hagood, Art Graham, Bill Renick, Wade White and Mitch Graves sit beside TVA CEO Don Moul, right, at a listening session in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, last month.
Staff File Photo By Daniel Dassow / From left, TVA board members Randy Jones, Bobby Klein, Jeff Hagood, Art Graham, Bill Renick, Wade White and Mitch Graves sit beside TVA CEO Don Moul, right, at a listening session in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, last month. Staff File Photo By Daniel Dassow / From left, TVA board members Randy Jones, Bobby Klein, Jeff Hagood, Art Graham, Bill Renick, Wade White and Mitch Graves sit beside TVA CEO Don Moul, right, at a listening session in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, last month.

By Clint Cooper 4 min read

TVA will make the decisions

We acknowledge that, in the end, the Tennessee Valley Authority is going to make decisions for itself based on what it believes is best for the nation’s largest public utility.

But we are unhappy to learn that TVA alone will now determine whether it will limit public input on projects with significant environmental impact.

(IN THE NEWS: Climate groups raise alarm as TVA asserts power to limit public input)

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his second first day in office rescinded a previous executive order by former President Jimmy Carter that allowed the Council on Environmental Quality to tell federal agencies how to study the impact of their actions on the environment.