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The Tennessee Valley Authority has secured a federal pledge of $46 million to extend the operational life of its Cumberland Fossil Plant in Tennessee — a coal-fired facility with a documented history of air-pollution violations — as part of President Donald Trump's broader effort to keep aging coal plants running.
The commitment marks a sharp reversal from TVA's own retirement schedule, which called for shutting down Cumberland's units in 2026 and 2028.
A Plant With a Record of Violations Cumberland's troubles stretch back more than two decades.
TVA entered a multibillion-dollar settlement in 2011 after regulators found the agency had failed to install required pollution control technology at the facility years earlier.
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