ATLANTA – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has now formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In an extremely disappointing reversal, the Tennessee Valley Authority announced it is planning to keep its Kingston and Cumberland coal plants operating for the foreseeable future, blowing by its upcoming deadlines to close the polluting facilities. The nation’s largest federal utility had previously committed to shutting down these dirty and expensive plants, which was the basis of its plans for building new, multi-billion-dollar methane gas power plants at the Cumberland and Kingston sites.
DENVER - This week Colorado utilities filed a request for reconsideration against the Trump administration's illegal coal orders following similar requests from public interest groups and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.
DENVER - Public interest organizations today challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal emergency order extending the life of Unit 1 at Colorado’s Craig Station. The groups include Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund, and Earthjustice on behalf of GreenLatinos, Vote Solar, and Public Citizen.
ATLANTA - Today, environmental groups pushed back on Georgia Power’s defense of its plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the nation.
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club is highlighting the transparency generated by the organization’s Environmental Law Program in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Democratic governors from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Maryland signed onto a deal to ensure PJM takes measures that ensure Big Tech is paying their fair share for their massive power usage.
The EPA claims the voluntary coal plant retirements included in the state’s plan would harm grid reliability, but this is incorrect because the state and the utilities have long planned to retire the coal plants and to replace their generation with cheaper and cleaner resources.
ATLANTA - Today, environmental groups demanded the Georgia Public Service Commission reconsider Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the nation.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) is considering a new rate structure on data centers that favors profits and protections for Big Tech companies and We Energies, putting Wisconsinites at risk to subsidize the infrastructure costs needed for these billion-dollar companies to run their data centers.
DENVER— Yesterday, the Trump administration issued an “emergency” order to force utilities to operate Craig Unit 1 against their will, past the Dec. 31 retirement deadline that the utilities had decided upon and their state regulators had approved. Trump’s actions to prop up an uneconomic coal plant will drive up the cost of electricity in Colorado and throughout the West. Craig Unit 1 is owned by three Colorado utilities–Tri-State, Xcel, and PRPA–along with PacifiCorp and Salt River Power.
INDIANAPOLIS – Today, as Americans are preparing for the holidays, the Trump administration issued an ‘emergency’ order to forcibly and illegally extend operations of F.B. Culley and R.M. Schahfer coal plants past their scheduled retirement, based on a sham reliability crisis that does not exist. The high cost to keep these aging coal plants online to, in part, power AI data centers are expected to be passed onto Hoosier families and small businesses.