NASHVILLE, TENN. - Today, the Trump administration announced its “Coal Day 2.0” agenda, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal mining leases and extending compliance deadlines and rolling back safeguards against air and water pollution.
ATLANTA - In a year filled with deception and broken promises, Georgia Power is now one of the dirtiest utilities in the nation, according to a report released by the Sierra Club today.
RICHMOND, VA - Dominion Energy has once again ranked among the dirtiest utilities in the nation, according to the Sierra Club’s annual Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges report. The 2025 analysis finds that Dominion’s plans for renewable energy are not only failing to keep pace with national peers— they are abandoning climate and environmental justice commitments.
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Santee Cooper has released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan update, rolling back the retirement of several coal plants while refusing to invest in sufficient low-cost renewable energy.
ATLANTA - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will side with the coal industry over our communities and delay the required cleanup of toxic coal ash landfills until 2030.
ATLANTA - Today, the Georgia Public Service Commission voted to approve Georgia Power’s Integrated Resource Plan, locking Georgia into a future of toxic coal and gas plants and overburdened ratepayers.
ATLANTA - Details on the costs incurred by Georgia Power to serve large load customers, namely data centers, will remain secret until 2028 following a vote Tuesday by the Public Service Commission (PSC). The commission voted unanimously in favor of a settlement agreement, referred to as the Stipulated Agreement, that doesn’t require the utility company to prove that data centers would result in lower rates for all customers or how the costs of bringing these facilities online will be socialized among existing billpayers.
ATLANTA - After another week of hearings on Georgia Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and its rate case settlement proposal, Georgia residents are still left in the dark about the company’s plans to build fossil fuel plants, and worry about the future of their energy bills.
Knoxville, TN - Donald Trump has fired three members of TVA’s Board of Directors, leaving the Board without enough members to make critical decisions for the federal utility’s 10 million customers.
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SALEM, Ore. — Climate, environmental justice, and community-led social justice organizations filed testimony yesterday detailing a litany of cost, climate, and equity objections to a proposed rate hike from NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility.