March 17, 2019
Sierra Club Supporters Testify Against Rollback of Mercury Safeguard’s Legal Foundation
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March 12, 2019
Today, March 12, the New Mexico legislature passed the Energy Transition Act (SB 489), a bill that will make electricity generation 100 percent carbon-free by 2045 from the state’s investor-owned utilities.
March 7, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. — A coalition of clean energy advocates have filed expert analyses with North Carolina utility regulators finding that the Duke Energy’s long-range plans would cost customers too much money by keeping aging, inefficient coal plants online, building new power plants that are not needed to meet electricity demand, and by failing to tap the full potential of abundant, low-cost, clean energy resources like solar and energy efficiency.
March 4, 2019
The first-ever comprehensive analysis of groundwater near U.S. coal-fired power plants shows Duke Energy’s Allen Steam Station near Belmont is the second most contaminated coal ash site in the country.
February 25, 2019
New Mexico -- A study released this morning finds a mix of renewable energy, battery storage, and energy efficiency is the lowest-cost option for Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) to replace the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station. San Juan is on track to close in 2022.
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 15, 2019
Today, in a sweeping 98-2 victory, Virginia passed legislation that will protect Virginia’s water by requiring responsible cleanup of more than 28 million tons of coal ash in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
February 15, 2019
The Tennessee Valley Authority today released a draft plan for how the federal utility proposes to generate electricity for its customers over the next 20 years, a day after the board of directors voted to phase out coal at its Bull Run plant in Tennessee and at its Paradise plant in western Kentucky.
February 14, 2019
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors voted today to retire the remaining coal unit at the Paradise power plant in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and the Bull Run coal plant in Anderson County, Tennessee. The vote was a clear repudiation of President Trump’s inappropriate and unusual tactic to block the TVA staff’s recommendation to phase out the units over the next several years.
February 13, 2019
The Sierra Club asked the public to write climate valentines to the EPA for delivery and today it will deliver hundreds to former coal lobbyist and acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler for the sole hearing on his effort to roll back life-saving climate standards for dirty power plants.
February 13, 2019
Today, Diné (Navajo) community organizations Tó Nizhóni Ání and Black Mesa Water Coalition, along with Sierra Club, filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue Peabody Western Coal Company, a subsidiary of Peabody Energy, for failing to disclose the upcoming closure of its Kayenta coal mine in its permit renewal application. The 44,000-acre Kayenta coal mine is on track to end operations when the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) -- the mine’s only customer -- closes on December 22, 2019.
February 5, 2019
Today, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) granted the final air permit for Tampa Electric Company’s (TECO) proposal to lock the Tampa Bay area into decades of dependence on climate-disrupting fossil fuels