Yesterday, PacifiCorp, the parent company of Rocky Mountain Power which serves Wyoming, released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), significantly scaling back and slow-walking investments in renewable energy, instead prioritizing expensive and volatile fossil fuels. The IRP, meant to guide the utility’s energy procurement strategy for the coming decades, represents a stark step backwards from cost-effective clean energy solutions that could lower customer bills and boost local economies.
Washington, D.C - The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has taken aim at its next government agency to shutter—the Office of Mine Safety and Health Administration.
FRANKFORT, KY -- After weeks of engagement from Sierra Club and partners, and growing opposition from Kentuckians across the political spectrum, Governor Andy Beshear has vetoed Senate Bill 89 (SB 89). If the veto is overturned, the legislation would strip decades old protections for Kentucky's groundwater, streams, and wetlands leading to increased pollution risks, higher water treatment costs, and more flood risks for communities across the Commonwealth–including drinking water of more than one million Kentuckians. Because of these wide-reaching impacts SB 89 has attracted broad opposition, not only from every environmental organization in Kentucky, but from cultural and community voices like Kentucky Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author, Silas House, and Louisville based band Bendigo Fletcher, whose new single “One Little Drink” is an ode to water in protest of SB 89. The bill is being lobbied for by corporate interests who would increase profit margins with fewer health and safety standards to follow.
Salt Lake City, UT – Today, dozens of Utahns gathered at the Marmalade Branch Library for The People’s Hearing – a public forum hosted by Utah Needs Clean Energy (UNCE) in response to the Utah Public Service Commission’s (PSC) refusal to hold a public hearing on the latest phase of Rocky Mountain Power’s proposed rate increase.
Washington, D.C. - Last night, Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that he is “authorizing [his] Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL.”
Jefferson City, Mo – As predicted by Sierra Club last week, the Missouri House of Representatives fast-tracked unpopular legislation that will increase utility bills by more than $1,000 annually.
Salt Lake City, UT – Today the Sierra Club, in partnership with Current Energy Group, published a new report, Utah and Wyoming: Economic Opportunities in PacifiCorp’s Renewable Energy Transition that provides a detailed analysis of how investments in renewable energy could create thousands of long-term, good-paying jobs while boosting economic activity and generating critical tax revenue for communities in both states.
Houston, TX - At CERAWeek, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in an interview that the U.S. should restart retired coal-fired power plants.
Jefferson City, Mo – On Monday, the Missouri House of Representatives is poised to bypass its democratic role in the legislative process to do the bidding of the state’s monopoly electric utilities.
Evansville, Ind – Faith, clean energy, and environmental advocates will host a press conference this Saturday detailing the various reasons why House Bill 1007 will create massive energy inflation throughout Indiana, including Evansville.
Topeka, Kan. – The Kansas legislature may pass a bill that could cause massive energy inflation for Evergy customers throughout Kansas, right as President Trump hurls the United States into a trade war that is estimated to cost the average family up to $2,000 in additional costs on everyday products.