ATLANTA - Today, Donald Trump’s administration proposed to repeal the Endangerment Finding for power plants – a move that would permanently strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Today, Donald Trump’s administration proposed to repeal the Endangerment Finding for power plants – a move that would permanently strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act. This action would remove one of the EPA’s most powerful tools for combating climate change.
Washington, D.C. - According to reporting, Donald Trump’s administration will propose to repeal the Endangerment Finding for power plants today – a move that would permanently strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act. This action would strip EPA of one of its most powerful tools for combating climate change. Combined with the administration’s February repeal of the Endangerment Finding for motor vehicles, today’s proposal is part of a sweeping effort to dismantle the legal foundation for federal climate regulation, leaving the EPA legally unable to act on the two largest sources of carbon pollution in the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Trump administration rule attempting to rescind the federal regulatory definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act goes into effect today. The change removes language that made clear that damaging or destroying habitat can violate the law when it kills or injures protected wildlife.
INDIANAPOLIS - Today, the U.S. District Circuit Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Sierra Club, overturning the Department of Energy’s “emergency” order, under section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, that forced the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan to continue operating past the retirement date set by the utility and state.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — On Thursday, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council voted to pass a zoning ordinance text amendment (ZOTA) opening up no greater than one percent of Fayette County, including agriculturally zoned land, for large-scale solar development. Notably, the amendment also requires that all approved solar projects are agrivoltaic, enabling both farming and renewable energy production on one site. The amendment was fiercely championed by local Sierra Club members and supporters.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the Sierra Club, overturning the Department of Energy’s“emergency” order overriding the state’s and utility’s decision to close the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Today, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) rejected Minnesota Power’s request to build a costly new gas plant to meet future energy demand and ordered the electric utility to continue investigating alternatives that would maintain grid reliability.
CUMBERLAND CITY, Tenn. — This week, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Appalachian Voices and the Sierra Club, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority over the utility’s failure to take federally required steps to protect Middle Tennessee communities from the harmful air pollution impacts of running its Cumberland coal plant alongside its newly built Cumberland Gas Plant.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Today, environmental activists from across Indiana delivered more than 1,300 petitions to Governor Mike Braun and Attorney General Todd Rokita, calling on them to challenge President Trump’s latest "emergency energy order" that will require coal burning units at NIPSCO’s Schahfer and Centerpoint’s Culley coal plants to continue operating despite the fact they were supposed to retire -- and Hoosiers were supposed to stop paying for them -- in December 2025.