September 18, 2025
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Santee Cooper has released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan update, rolling back the retirement of several coal plants while refusing to invest in sufficient low-cost renewable energy.
Let's Move Beyond Coal
Let's Move Beyond Coal
Beyond Coal is one of the most extensive, effective, and long-lasting campaigns in the history of the environmental movement. Through our national campaign and chapters across the country, we advocate for an electric power system run on affordable, reliable clean energy and not fossil fuels.
By mobilizing our members, deepening grassroots leadership, and winning local victories, we are building power for long-term, durable climate and justice wins.
About Us
We engage over a million members and supporters to intervene in public utility dockets, in litigation, and before state and federal agencies to advocate for clean energy. We build broad, inclusive coalitions that bring together local consumer advocates, labor organizations, large energy consumer groups, clean energy advocates, and environmental justice leaders.
More About Our CampaignMost utilities in the United States lack the truly ambitious plans needed to make the clean energy transition a reality.
The Dirty Truth Report
What utilities do, or don't do, over the next decade will either drive us to more polluting, expensive fossil fuels or lead us to a clean energy transition. What is your utility doing?
See Our ReportCoal-Burning Power Plants
The Beyond Coal campaign wants to close all coal plants in the U.S. and replace them entirely with sources of clean energy.
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140 active plants — 390 retired/proposed to retire
The decrease in air pollution from coal plant retirements to date has prevented over 60,000 premature deaths, 100,000 heart attacks, and 1,000,000 asthma attacks! See which coal plants are polluting your community.
Grassroots pressure combined with economic realities will end the fossil fuel industry, and consumers and workers alike are speeding this inevitable transition.
Do Coal and Gas Power Plants Affect You and Where You Live?
Our map shows the existing coal plants in America and those that have retired or committed to retirement. We also track where gas pipelines and plants are threatening a clean energy future. We’re working toward a future where these maps show clean, renewable energy.
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Press Releases
September 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Public interest advocates from across the Midwest filed a protest with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today, urging it to reject a complaint that would stall efforts to add 24 new power lines in the…
September 8, 2025
Washington, D.C. — Today, public interest groups challenged the Department of Energy’s (DOE) second illegal emergency order forcing the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan to operate for an additional 90 days.
August 29, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Following the submission of over 5,000 community comments from West Virginians, the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSC) has ruled on a proposed rate hike by American Electric Power (AEP). While the impact to…
August 21, 2025
West Olive, MI - Last night, the Trump Administration issued another expensive, unnecessary, pollution-causing, and illegal emergency order for the J.H. Campbell power plant in Michigan to operate past its planned retirement for another 90 days…