Brian Willis is the deputy press secretary for federal affairs for the Sierra Club.
Oct 9 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Westmoreland Coal Company announced it will enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, following a recent trend in coal company bankruptcies caused by American energy consumers' increasing…
Oct 3 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Donald Trump formally nominated his initial coal bailout architect, Bernard McNamee, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today in order to fill the seat of resigning…
Oct 1 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler is holding the nation’s only hearing for public comment in Chicago today on the…
Oct 1 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The New York Times reported late yesterday that former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Andrew Wheeler, has finalized his proposal to…
Sep 7 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced today that he will only hold one public hearing for his plan to rollback the…
Sep 6 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Media outlets reported today that Steven Gardner, a coal industry insider beholden to polluters, has withdrawn his nomination to Direct the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and…
Sep 4 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, a report from the EPA’s Inspector General found that former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not have the justification or authority to approve the exponential increases…
Aug 29 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - FirstEnergy Solutions notified PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM) today that it plans to deactivate two uneconomic coal plants unless the Trump Administration forces taxpayers and…
Aug 29 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Trump administration and former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, officially announced today that they are…
Aug 21 2018
Trump and Wheeler Gut Clean Air Safeguards to Appease Fossil Fuel Billionaires As Economy Continues to Move Away from CoalWASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental…