April 1, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Roy Cooper’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today ordered Duke Energy to excavate all remaining coal ash impoundments in North Carolina and move the toxic waste to lined storage.
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February 20, 2019
Alabama Power Company today announced it will retire the William Crawford Gorgas Electric Generating Plant in Walker County, which has operated on the banks of the Black Warrior River in Walker County since 1917.
February 4, 2019
A standing-room-only crowd of Duke Energy customers packed the N.C. Utilities Commission chambers tonight to demand a long-term energy plan from the utility that prioritizes safe, clean renewables over dirty, dangerous fossil fuels. Tonight was the only in-person opportunity for the public to weigh in on the plans,
November 19, 2018
KNOXVILLE, TENN. —The Tennessee Valley Authority today released its draft environmental reviews on potential for coal unit retirements at Bull Run in Anderson County Tennessee and Paradise in western Kentucky’s Muhlenberg County.
November 19, 2018
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Duke Energy has admitted in recent filings that most of its coal ash pits in North Carolina are close to or in contact with local groundwater.
September 20, 2018
Duke Energy has activated a high-level emergency at the retired L.V. Sutton coal-fired power plant, as flood waters from the nearby Cape Fear River have overtaken an earthen dike and Sutton Lake in Wilmington. Meanwhile, multiple releases of pollution from the H.F. Lee coal plant have surged into the Neuse River in Goldsboro.
July 23, 2018
Sierra Club is formally appealing to the North Carolina Supreme Court the decision by state regulators to make customers pay for Duke Energy Carolinas’ multi-million dollar toxic coal ash cleanup
June 22, 2018
State regulators today approved a $14 mandatory monthly rate hike for Duke Energy Carolinas’ customers and will force them to shoulder millions in costs for the utility’s statewide toxic coal ash cleanup.
May 3, 2018
Today, Ameren shareholders voted and passed a resolution introduced by Midwest Coalition for Responsible Investment that will require Ameren to disclose the impacts of coal ash on the communities it serves. Area residents and Ameren shareholders convened outside of the annual Ameren shareholders meeting to call for clean water and cleaning up of toxic coal ash waste sites around the region.
April 24, 2018
Residents from Central Illinois testified before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) yesterday in strong opposition to proposed rollbacks to federal coal ash pollution rules. USEPA Head Scott Pruitt’s new proposal to weaken the already modest federal clean water protections from toxic coal ash endangers the health of the 1.5 million children that live near coal ash storage sites. Illinois has seventy-five coal ash impoundments across the state. These sites contain some of the most toxic chemicals on earth - like arsenic, lead, mercury, and chromium - which raise the risk for cancer, heart disease, and stroke, and can inflict permanent brain damage on children. Proposed rollbacks not only cede the authority to monitor pollution to polluters themselves, but also will curtail local residents’ ability to hold companies accountable for damaging local water supplies.
February 22, 2018
Springfield, MO - At today’s Springfield Board of Public Utilities meeting, representatives from Sierra Club called on City Utilities (CU) to close its coal ash landfill at the John Twitty power plant, citing the utility’s inability to effectively monitor groundwater beneath the landfill. A representative from Mom’s Clean Air Force also presented on the risks coal ash contamination poses to human health, particularly children’s health.
September 14, 2017
Puget Sound Energy (PSE), the largest utility in Washington State, reached a proposed settlement today to pay down all of its debts on Colstrip by 2027. Initially the utility had planned to pay off the coal plant in 2045, but as coal continues to get more expensive compared to cleaner alternatives like solar, wind and energy efficiency, holding onto coal assets is getting harder to justify. The proposal is part of PSE's rate case process and still needs approval of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.