June 17, 2023
PHOENIX, AZ – Today Sierra Club's Grand Canyon Chapter hosted the SRP is Full of Gas Tour to address pollution, climate change, water use, and proposed gas plant expansion at three of its gas plants located throughout the valley.
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June 15, 2023
Kansas City, KS -- Evergy, the largest electric utility in Kansas and the second largest in Missouri, filed its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) with Kansas and Missouri regulators today. There’s not a lot of good news for customers who care about clean energy and climate change.
June 15, 2023
St. Louis, MO – Today, the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) approved an agreement between interveners and Ameren Missouri to increase electric rates by $140 million annually, down from the $316 million the state’s largest monopoly electric utility applied for last year.
June 15, 2023
Today, the Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project, and National Parks Conservation Association filed a lawsuit against EPA for failing to act on plans from Texas and seven other states for the second phase of the federal Regional Haze Rule.
June 15, 2023
Just days after wildfire haze caused Detroit to experience the second worst air quality in the world, a coalition of organizations is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address another kind of traveling haze that also has roots in climate change yet pollutes our skies all year.
June 15, 2023
Washington, DC - Today, a coalition of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to enforce the Regional Haze Rule required by the Clean Air Act. Despite its mandate to approve or reject state haze plans within 18 months, EPA has failed to act on Regional Haze plans submitted by Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin.
June 1, 2023
David Tudor, CEO and General Manager of Associated Electric Cooperative Incorporated (AECI), provided testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the reliability of electric systems. AECI supplies 51 local electric cooperatives in Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma while running two of the dirtiest coal plants in the country: Thomas Hill and New Madrid.
May 31, 2023
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Today Rocky Mountain Power submitted its biennial Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) that foreshadows where the utility plans to get power for the next twenty years. Although the plan forecasts substantial and needed acquisition of new clean energy resources, Rocky Mountain Power stopped short of committing to the clean energy future the world’s leading scientists have made clear is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
May 25, 2023
St. Louis, MO – A report released by the Sierra Club today reveals that by strengthening and enforcing federal air quality standards, the owners of 64% of remaining coal plants would be required to more stringently address harmful pollution from their facilities.
May 25, 2023
A report released by the Sierra Club today reveals that by strengthening and enforcing federal air quality standards, the owners of 64% of remaining coal plants would be required to more stringently address harmful pollution from their facilities.
May 18, 2023
PHOENIX – On Thursday morning at 10 a.m., Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, along with renewable energy advocates, delivered a gift basket along with a petition signed by over 100
17 de mayo de 2023
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) del Presidente Biden actuó para proteger al público de millones de toneladas de cenizas tóxicas de carbón almacenadas en vertederos y estaques por todo el país que previamente estaban exentas de regulaciones federales.