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On April 14, 2011, TVA and North Carolina settled a 5-year-old lawsuit - [[North Carolina v. TVA]] - over TVA emissions from its coal-fired plants. As part of the agreement, TVA agreed to phase out 18 units of its coal plants, including six units at the [[Widows Creek Fossil Plant]], taking all but two offline.<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=13375691 "TVA Phasing out Hundreds of Jobs at Coal Plants"] ABC, April 14, 2011.</ref><ref name="TVA">[http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/decrees/civil/caa/tvacoal-fired-cd.pdf "Consent Decree,"] ''North Carolina v. TVA,'' U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, accessed April 20, 2011</ref> In May 2012, TVA began considering a switch to natural gas for the plant, linked up to a proposed natural gas pipeline from Tennessee through Alabama to Georgia.<ref>Ben Benton, [http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/may/13/TVA-natural-gas-pipeline-jackson-county-for-region/?print "Natural gas pipeline considered for tri-state region,"} Times Free Press, May 13, 2012.</ref>
Units 1-6 were retired in stages from May 2012 2013 to July 20132014.<ref name=TVA>[https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/ Form EIA-860 Data - Schedule 3, Generator Data,] US EIA, 2014</ref>
===November 2013: TVA announces plan to retire unit 8===
