"Over the past four years, the Tennessee Valley Authority has decided to shutter more than half of the 59 coal-fired power generators it once operated within its 7-state service territory to cut air pollution and comply with stricter environmental regulations.

But TVA directors today are expected to vote to keep operating a pair of 60-year-old coal units in Kentucky, even though the generators are no longer in TVA's service territory.

The TVA board has called a special meeting today at 10 a.m. to be conducted via a webcast among the eight directors to consider the future of units 1 and 4 at the Shawnee Fossil Plant in Paducah, Ky. The two generators are among 18 that TVA agreed in a 2011 consent order with EPA to either shut down or clean up by 2018."

Dave Flessner reports for the Chattanooga Times Free Press December 30, 2014. [2]

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"TVA Board Approves Additional Pollution Controls For Shawnee Fossil Plant" (Chattanoogan) [3]