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Texans Urge Trump’s EPA to Back Off of Regional Haze Rule

Dallas – More than 1,000 people and nine organizations have submitted comments urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rethink plans to weaken regional haze pollution standards in the Lone Star State.

Donald Trump Gives More Passes to Big Polluters

Washington, D.C. - Last night, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency exempted more big polluters from lifesaving EPA guardrails. 

DOE Takes Step to Extend Lives of Polluting Power Plants Under False Energy Emergency 

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued a methodology to analyze reserve power margins across the country that systematically undercounts the contributions of clean energy to meet the nation’s energy needs and protect system reliability. DOE plans to use this methodology to deem certain generators, likely coal and natural gas, as critical to system reliability, consistent with its recent actions. 

Kansas Regulators Approve Expensive Evergy Gas Plants

Kansas City, Ks – Today, the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC), which regulates monopoly utilities like Evergy, approved a non-unanimous settlement allowing the electric company to build two gas plants totaling an estimated $1.6 billion. Half of the new gas plant costs will be charged to the utility’s Kansas customers.

Lee Zeldin Intends to Allow More Heavy Metals in Our Waterways

Washington, D.C. - Today, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s intention to gut the Effluent Limitation Guidelines.

Full Page Open Letter Calls on Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to Stop Fueling Climate Change with Data Center Demands

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.

Sierra Club Celebrates Removal of Bull Run Smoke Stacks

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. 

Groups Challenge the Trump Administration’s Illegal Eddystone Plant Extension

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.

Health, Environmental Groups Demand Accountability Following Nippon Steel, U.S. Steel Merger

Coal-Based Steelmaking Estimated To Cause ~2,000 Premature Deaths Near U.S. Steel Facilities

Ten Groups Push Back Against Trump’s Illegal Campbell Plant Extension

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. 

West Virginians say “enough is enough” at AEP rate hike hearing

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).

New Report: Global Bank Financing of Fossil Fuels Totals $869B In 2024, A Dramatic Increase In Financing

Banking on Climate Chaos reveals banks financed $429B in companies expanding fossil fuels in 2024