February 24, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS — Duke Energy plans to shutter its Gallagher Station by June 1, moving up original plans to retire the coal plant in 2022.
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February 10, 2021
The Illinois Pollution Control Board’s February 5th revisions to coal ash regulations proposed by the Illinois EPA make progress towards rectifying coal's dirty legacy in Illinois, but more can be done, said several environmental groups.
January 14, 2021
The Sierra Club and South Carolina’s environmental regulators have entered into an agreement to update permits at three coal burning power plants that have been discharging mercury, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants into local waterways using permits that expired as long ago as 2010.
January 11, 2021
Atlanta, GA -- Last week, the Sierra Club continued its legal battle in Sierra Club v. Georgia Public Service Commission and Georgia Power Company over Georgia Power’s 2019 rate case. Specifically, appealing coal ash recovery costs to the Georgia Court of Appeals.
January 11, 2021
Under growing pressure from state regulators, the governor and thousands of customers, Dominion Energy has agreed to a six-month pause on its request for a 7.8% electricity rate increase, which would have raised the average residential bill by $10 a month.
January 4, 2021
Dominion Energy South Carolina must do a comprehensive coal fleet retirement analysis and assess replacement of the plants, and it must be completed before the utility makes decisions about spending customers’ money to retrofit the Williams and Wateree plants to comply with federal rules meant to protect waterways from mercury, arsenic, and other pollutants from coal plant wastewater.
9 de octubre de 2020
El ex cabildero de la industria carbonera y administrador de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), Andrew Wheeler, presentó un nuevo debilitamiento de las protecciones de la limpieza del agua
September 2, 2020
Duke Energy has filed its long-term energy plans with state regulators, laying out options that could bring an end to most coal burning by 2030, but that still envision decades of dependence on dangerous fracked gas.
July 9, 2020
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has failed in its obligation to protect the water quality and health of families living near the Cross, Winyah and Wateree coal plants, all of which are located in predominantly Black and low-income communities. At all three sites, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits—which monitor and limit industrial discharge into waterways—expired almost a decade ago.
May 27, 2020
ATLANTA, GA - During Southern Company’s May 27th Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Tom Fanning, CEO, made an announcement that committed the company to “net zero” emissions by 2050. Along the way, the utility claimed it will cut its carbon emissions in half by 2030 based on a 2007 baseline.
March 4, 2020
Today, the Sierra Club appealed the Georgia Public Service Commission's decision to award Georgia Power $525 million to clean up decades-worth of coal ash contamination.
February 20, 2020
Today, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) asked the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) for permission to sell its 25% ownership stake in Colstrip Unit 4 to NorthWestern Energy, a Montana-based utility that intends to run the plant for the next 20 years. A copy of the filing is available HERE.