COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Trump Administration announced its latest scheme to bail out the coal industry ordering up to $175 million in funds originally intended to support energy resiliency, efficiency, and greenhouse gas reductions in rural communities to instead help prop up a number of old, inefficient coal plants.
LOUISVILLE, KY. - On the heels of receiving an inaugural “Undisputed Champion of Coal” award from an industry-backed pro-coal group, President Trump has announced $175 million in taxpayer-funded handouts to seven coal plants, including LG&E and KU’s Ghent Generating Station. The money, originally intended to support energy resiliency, efficiency, and greenhouse gas reductions in rural communities, will now instead subsidize new, expensive equipment on the Ghent plant, a move that Sierra Club has already previously opposed.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - On the heels of receiving an inaugural “Undisputed Champion of Coal” award from an industry-backed pro-coal group, President Trump has announced $175 million in taxpayer-funded handouts to seven coal plants, including Appalachian Power’s Amos and Mountaineer plants and Monongahela Power’s Fort Martin.
NASHVILLE – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has now formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
RALEIGH, N.C. – Trump announced the Department of Energy will throw a $175 million taxpayer-funded lifeline to six coal plants throughout the country, including Duke Energy’s Belews Creek in North Carolina. The DOE notes additional taxpayer money will be doled out to support coal plants in the future.
INDIANAPOLIS – This week, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a suite of rollbacks that bolster the coal and fossil fuel industries, threatening to keep our coal plants online longer and make our environment and climate dirtier.
MADISON, Wis. – This week, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a suite of rollbacks that bolster the coal and fossil fuel industries, threatening to keep our coal plants online longer and make our environment and climate dirtier.
ATLANTA – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has now formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
NEW YORK — The Trump Administration has removed a pride flag from a major national monument for LGBTQ+ history.
Washington, D.C. - Based on reporting, today Donald Trump will give away hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to coal plants and mandate that the Department of Defense must enter contracts to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants.