Wentworth, N.C. – The second of two public hearings on the proposed construction of the Enbridge T15 pipeline will be hosted by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) tomorrow evening in Wentworth. The Sierra Club and its North Carolina members, volunteers, and allies stand opposed to the project.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Department of the Interior released a draft plan that would open up the largest contiguous piece of public lands in the country to oil and gas drilling. The draft plan would open up 82 percent of the Western Arctic to drilling. The Western Arctic comprises 23 million acres of public lands in northwest Alaska.
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).
Communities across Oregon celebrated passage of Climate Resilience Investment Act
Washington, D.C. – Less than a month after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied MISO’s discriminatory energy plan, the grid operator ran roughshod on the stakeholder process and resubmitted an updated discriminatory plan with federal regulators. There are issues with both the content of MISO’s updated ERAS proposal and its process.
Banking on Climate Chaos reveals banks financed $429B in companies expanding fossil fuels in 2024
Washington, DC – Today, Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee released text of their part of Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big, Beautiful” reconciliation bill in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior has issued a proposal to roll back 2024 improvements to the Ten Day Notice Rule, a process that allows citizens to request inspections by federal regulators of environmental and public health and safety issues caused by coal mines when the state fails to take action to force coal companies to correct the violations.