{"id":294425,"date":"2026-02-12T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294425\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:47:13","slug":"new-tva-board-under-trump-extends-coal-eliminates-renewable-energy-as-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294425\/","title":{"rendered":"New TVA board under Trump extends coal, eliminates renewable energy as priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/staff\/daniel-dassow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Dassow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-email\"><a class=\"staffer__email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/11\/new-tva-board-under-trump-eliminates-dei\/mailto:ddassow@timesfreepress.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ddassow@timesfreepress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Daniel_Dassow_mug_t261.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Dassow is a business reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. He earned degrees in English and religious studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2023, where he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Beacon. He previously worked as a tech and energy reporter for the Knoxville News Sentinel. He is the youngest of six siblings. Contact him at 423-757-6318 or ddassow@timesfreepress.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Dassow ddassow@timesfreepress.com Daniel Dassow is a business reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. He earned degrees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-294425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}