Southwest Center for Biological Diversity--The Southwest Center for Biological Diversity represents the union of the most successful biodiversity activists in the Southwest. We combine rigorous conservation biology with innovative legal strategies and a powerful vision of what we can build together.
Midwest Hardwood Defenders:
Heartwood--Heartwood is an association of groups, individuals, and businesses dedicated to the health and well being of the native forest of the Central Hardwood region, and its interdependent plant, animal, and human communities. We beleive that the principal role of public forests is the conservation of functioning ecosystems and the wealth of biological diversity they contain.
Allegheny Defense Project--The Allegheny Defense Project is a bioregional organization dedicated to finding community based solutions for restoring the ecological integrity of the region and building sustainable economies benefiting the health of all the forest communities of the Allegheny National Forest.
Southern U.S. Action Groups:
Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition (TVERC)--TVERC is a non-profit membership coalition of 19 environmental and citizen organizations that represents more
than 10,000 Tennessee Valley residents. TVERC's broad mission is to monitor and reform TVA's energy policies
so that they are more responsive environmentally and economically to the needs of the citizens and ratepayers
of the Tennessee Valley. Through research, education, and public participation, TVERC seeks to alert
Tennessee Valley ratepayers and Congress about the impacts of TVA's power program and solutions that will
counter these problems. TVERC utilizes several tools
including presentations, publications, conferences, professional studies, regional activist's meetings, special
interest collaboratives, and interviews with regional and national media representatives.
From The Chattanooga Times: "TVA's plan to make bomb-grade tritium at Watts Bar and Sequoyah for the military was priced more than twice as high as TVA's other offers. That's because the federal utility would prefer that the Department of Energy help complete the unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Alabama to make both tritium and electricity. TVA wants the military to pay more than $2.9 billion over the next 25 years to receive tritium generated from either Watts Bar or Sequoyah. By contrast, TVA estimates DOE would only have to spend $1.4 billion to finish Bellefonte and it could recoup all of that investment through its share of electricity the plant could generate."
TVERC is battling this plan for yet another nuclear power facility in the Tennessee Valley.
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Last updated December 31, 1998