Renner Barsella is an associate press secretary for the midwest with the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.
Feb 12 2020
Grand Haven -- This week the 37-year-old Sims coal fired power plant in Grand Haven will be shut down permanently in accordance with plans made one year ago by the Grand Haven Board of Light &…
Jan 23 2020
La Crosse, WI -- Today Dairyland Power Cooperative announced plans to retire the Genoa coal-fired power plant in Genoa, Wisconsin in 2021. This proposed coal plant retirement marks the 304th…
Jan 16 2020
MADISON, WI -- This afternoon, Wisconsin Public Service Commission approved a proposal by Dairyland Power and Minnesota Power to build the Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant in Superior,…
Dec 19 2019
Chicago, IL. - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) instituted a disastrous new rule today that will essentially exclude new renewable energy projects from the PJM capacity market and…
Nov 15 2019
LANSING, MICHIGAN-- Last night, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bills 4069, 4465, and Senate Bill 47 which eliminate property tax increases for residential, commercial, and industrial…
Oct 30 2019
SUPERIOR, WI -- This week, advocates from both Wisconsin and Minnesota testified in opposition to the Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant proposed for construction in Superior, just two…
Sep 16 2019
PEORIA, IL. -- The Sierra Club, along with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Respiratory Health Association (RHA), are seeking approval of a proposed settlement with Illinois Power…
Aug 28 2019
MADISON, WI -- Today, Sierra Club filed direct testimony in WEC Energy Group’s rate case, asserting that WEC is asking customers for $138 million more than is fair and reasonable due to costs…
Aug 27 2019
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Recent tests conducted by the Sierra Club have shown that drinking water is contaminated in neighborhoods around Consumers Energy's J.H. Campbell Coal Plant in West Olive. Results…
Aug 21 2019
Peoria, IL -- Vistra Energy announced today that it is closing its coal burning power plants in Canton, Havana, Hennepin, and Coffeen. In response, the Sierra Club’s Heart of Illinois Group Chair…