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Accountability
TVA names senior VP as its first ombudsman   By Associated Press  June 2, 2007
What Fraud Might Look Like At TVA (OIG Connection - 4/06) - office of the inspector general
TVA votes first, then listens.  Utility has history of passing budget before public input.  9/27/07.  Nashville Tennessean by
ANNE PAINE.
HOW TVA BOARD MEETINGS WERE OPENED TO THE PUBLIC IN 1980s
From Faith Young:  TVA took notice of the public for the very, very first time early on I remember.   .  We had slipped into the TVA
Knoxville meeting room.  As I rose to speak.  Aubrey Wagner and  colleagues  got up from their chairs .  He walked out of the
room and shut the door..  Can you picture?  It was wonderful.  They were astonished.   Didn't work in the '80s.  We all went to jail.
  

From Jeannine Honicker:  Let me tell you the rest of the story about how the TVA board meetings became public. I was there
when Faith and her crew tried it the second time.  Faith was smart.  She invited two very fat women.  When the board tried to
leave, these great gals just stood in the doorway and block their exit.  So, the board had to open up to the public.  Great fun.
Pivotal energy issues ahead point to scrutiny of TVA.  Nashville Tennessean.  10/20/07
TVA board develops 'conservative' compensation plan.  Knoxville News Sentinel:  November 30, 2007
1982 GA0 Report For Sen. Jim Sasser on How to Make TVA More Accountable.
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Facing the future.  Officials face many challenges for what lies ahead of TVA, from nuclear power to debt
to development.  Muscle Shoals TIme Daily.  5.20/08

Public, private: Debate goes on.  Muscle Shoals TIme Daily.  5.20/08

At $24 billion in debt, what's next for TVA?  Muscle Shoals TIme Daily.  5.20/08

75 years of TVA: Reaping the benefits. Muscle Shoals TIme Daily. 5/19/08
Brass: Rates on the rise, but where?  Reporter unable to get information from TVA.  Larisa Brass
Knoxville News Sentinel.  September 23, 2008
TVA answers exec pay critics Compensation of execs comparable to others  Ed Marcum Knoxville News
Sentinel.  December 17, 2008  

A nice raise for CEO of TVA.  News comes in wake of major increase in public utility's rates. Knoxville News
Sentinel.  Oct. 31, 2008.

TVA salary raise blasted.  Lawmakers say increasing CEO's pay now is bad timing.  Knoxville News
Sentinel.  November 1, 2008
Paris, Tenn., power chief got boat dock under TVA program  By Josh Flory.  Knoxville News Sentinel.  
Probe into Shuler-linked TVA swap broadens.  Knoxville News Sentinel.  November 18, 2008
TVA's Customer Relations Performance.  TVA Office of the Inspector General. 2007-11401.   September
29, 2008.  This review was the first in a series of reviews that will benchmark TVA's performance in key areas
Customer Relations."  

TVA Inspection Reports To Measure Effectiveness.   January 01, 2009.  Bristol Herald Courier.  All four
IOG reports will be given to Congress, and are expected to be posted on the office's Web site, oig.tva.gov,
by spring.  

TVA’s costly mission drift.  Chattanooga Times Editorial.  January 18, 2009.
TVA ready to revise strategic plans.  Recent financial and environmental flaws push agency to define a
“new era.”  Chattanooga Times Free Press.  Feb. 16, 2009
Kilgore Doesn't Feel He Has Public's Trust.  MSNBC.  March 9, 2009.

CEO Kilgore discusses utility's rough year, challenging future.  By Anne Paine and Brad Schrade • THE
TENNESSEAN • February 8, 2009
Obama's moment to overhaul the TVA.  The utility, a New Deal icon, is a major polluter.  By William
Chandler. Christian Science Monitor.  February 25, 2009.

How Big Government Infrastructure Projects Go Wrong.  Lessons from the TVA. Jim Powell | Reason
Who Is Really In Charge Of The TVA.  Chattanooga.com.  March 4, 2009
Duncan Mansfield • ASSOCIATED PRESS • March 3, 2009

Shuler deal makes TVA alter water access rules.  By Bill Theobald • TENNESSEAN WASHINGTON BUREAU •
June 9, 2009

TVA balks at changing pay of inspector general.  By Dave Flessner • CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS •
May 18, 2009

TVA OIG Needs To Be Independent Of The TVA Board Chattanoogan.com.  posted May 20, 2009

TVA oversight promised as a result of coal ash spill.  Congress warns that more hearings on spill are likely.  
Michael Collins Knoxville News Sentinel.  April 1, 2009.

Global warming public relations flap follows official to TVA.  Former NASA
spokesman says censorship claims preceded him.  By Anne Paine • THE TENNESSEAN
• January 17, 2010

TVA realigns top management: Kingston ash spill prompts restructure.  By Ed
Marcum  Knoxville News Sentinel.  December 5, 2009

Environmental Integrity Project report -- titled "Outside the Law: Restoring Accountability to the
Tennessee Valley Authority" – details how the TVA has emerged as one of the nation's worst
polluters by exploiting its special status as a federal corporation to sidestep federal regulation, avoid
fines that other utilities are required to pay, and delay solutions to known environmental problems at
Kingston and other TVA coal plants.  Dec. 14, 2009

TVA worker gave IG false data.  Report: Ex-employee denied knowing Shuler had
ownership interest.  By Josh Flory.  Knoxville News Sentinel.  September 16, 2009

Going It Alone: TVA Handles Emissions Suits With In-House Lawyers.  Law.Com Sept.
25, 2009

Officials still eye TVA in-lieu-of taxes revenue.  AL counties outside TVA service
area get TVA funds.  Florence AL Times Daily  July 19, 2009