San Francisco, Ca – A full page open letter in the Sunday papers of the San Francisco Chronicle (A3) and Seattle Times (A5) calls on the country’s largest technology company CEOs – Amazon’s Andy Jassy, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella – to power their data centers with clean energy, or risk failing to meet their own climate goals.
Claxton, TN - Tomorrow, two smoke stacks at the Bull Run power plant will be imploded and removed, marking the end of the coal-fired power plant. Following years of advocacy by the Sierra Club, the Tennessee Valley Authority retired the Bull Run power plant in 2023. Since 2012, TVA has retired or announced plans to retire 10 coal-fired power plants.
HARRISBURG, PA – Public interest groups, led by NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), today legally challenged the Department of Energy’s mandate to keep the Eddystone Generating Station open past its planned closing. The Department of Energy (DOE) issued an order on May 30 forcing the uneconomic oil and gas power plant to remain operational past its planned May 31, 2025 retirement date.
Coal-Based Steelmaking Estimated To Cause ~2,000 Premature Deaths Near U.S. Steel Facilities
West Olive, MI - Today, 10 public interest groups challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal extension of the J.H. Campbell power plant past its planned expiration.
Wheeling, WV - West Virginians’ electric bills will rise, making them the fastest-rising rates in the nation, if the rate hike proposed by American Electric Power (AEP) is approved by the Public Service Commission (PSC). The proposal would affect customers of AEP’s subsidiaries, Wheeling Power (serving Ohio and Marshall Counties), and Appalachian Power (serving much of the southern part of the state).
Banking on Climate Chaos reveals banks financed $429B in companies expanding fossil fuels in 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior has issued a proposal to roll back 2024 improvements to the Ten Day Notice Rule, a process that allows citizens to request inspections by federal regulators of environmental and public health and safety issues caused by coal mines when the state fails to take action to force coal companies to correct the violations.
Kansas City, Ks – Yesterday, the Trump Administration issued a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to repeal the agency’s Clean Air Act Section 111 carbon pollution standards, which limit climate-disrupting greenhouse gas emissions from gas- and coal-fired power plants.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Today, the Trump Administration issued a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to repeal the agency’s Clean Air Act Section 111 carbon pollution standards, which limit climate-disrupting greenhouse gas emissions from gas- and coal-fired power plants.
Indianapolis, Ind – Today, the Trump Administration issued a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to repeal the agency’s Clean Air Act Section 111 carbon pollution standards, which limit climate-disrupting greenhouse gas emissions from gas- and coal-fired power plants.
Indianapolis, Ind – Today, the Trump Administration issued a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to repeal the agency’s Clean Air Act Section 111 carbon pollution standards, which limit climate-disrupting greenhouse gas emissions from gas- and coal-fired power plants.