(Originally appeared on The Knoxville News Sentinel)  By Cortney Piper, Executive Director, Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council By almost any metric, Tennessee had a strong 2020 in advanced energy, a […]

The Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council celebrates a significant recent victory for Tennessee’s robust advanced energy industry with the announcement of GM’s addition of an electric vehicle at its Spring Hill plant.

In 2015, Volkswagen (VW) publicly admitted that it had secretly and deliberately installed a defeat device- software designed to cheat emissions tests and deceive federal and state regulators- in approximately […]

This meeting will provide an overview of the VW Diesel Settlement, the Environmental Mitigation Trust, TDEC’s process for developing a proposed Beneficiary Mitigation Plan for Tennessee, and an overview of the types of eligible mitigation actions that can be funded by Tennessee’s Environmental Mitigation Trust allocation.