Donald Trump Gives Away Taxpayer Dollars to Big Coal
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Department of Energy announced a $625 million effort in retrofitting aging coal plants. The Trump administration has slashed billions of dollars in clean…
Christine Ho (she/her) is the deputy press secretary for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.
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EPA to Delay Enforcement of Wastewater Protections
Washington, D.C. - The Environmental Protection Agency intends to allow coal-fired power plants to delay compliance with effluent limitation guidelines that limit coal ash wastewater…
Donald Trump Sells Out Public Lands, Public Health to Costly Coal
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration announced its “Coal Day 2.0” agenda, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal mining leases and extending…
Donald Trump Intends to Expand Pricey, Illegal Coal Plant Extensions
Washington, D.C. - According to reporting, Donald Trump and his administration are planning to issue executive orders pushing the Department of Energy to issue additional emergency orders…
Judge Overrules Revolution Wind Stop Work Order
Washington, D.C. - A federal judge has overturned the stop rule order issued by the Trump administration on the Revolution Wind project in Rhode Island and Connecticut. At the time of the…
NEW Sierra Club Report: TVA Receives 'D' on Affordable Energy Transition
Knoxville, TN - The Tennessee Valley Authority has received a poor grade on the Sierra Club’s Dirty Truth Report for the fifth year in a row. TVA received a ‘D’ on the report because of the…
NEW Sierra Club Report: Utilities Backslide on Clean Energy Transition
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Sierra Club released its annual Dirty Truth Report, which grades 75 utilities across the country on their plans to retire coal plants by 2030, not build new gas plants…
Trump Administration Blocks Another Offshore Wind Project, Killing More Affordable Energy
Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the Trump Administration moved to rescind the SouthCoast offshore wind project’s permit. This is the latest in a string of attacks on fully permitted,…
Trump Administration Seeks to Revoke Maryland Offshore Wind Permit, Block Affordable and Clean Energy
Washington, D.C. - On Friday, the Trump Administration filed a lawsuit seeking to revoke the Maryland Offshore Wind Project’s permit after a string of attacks on offshore wind. The project…
Challenge to the Latest Illegal Extension of J.H. Campbell Coal Plant
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…