ILLINOIS — On Thursday, August 20, the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors voted to sell its federally-owned mineral rights to the Sugar Camp mine in Illinois. TVA’s decision to divest its ownership in Sugar Camp ensures that one of the nation’s largest mines will continue to operate — despite the alarming environmental issues and safety violations that have plagued the mining complex.
WASHINGTON – A coalition of nearly 200 environmental, health, and community groups filed comments late Friday urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposal to eliminate the minimum public participation requirements for air pollution permits often used for data centers, power plant expansions, and other industrial facilities.
WASHINGTON, DC - A broad coalition today urged Congress to reject four Congressional Review Act resolutions that would overturn long-standing Clean Air Act preemption waivers relied upon by states to protect public health and air quality.
WISCONSIN – Another frac-out on Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute construction has been reported at Trout Brook in Marengo, Wisconsin.
MIDDLETOWN, OH — Cleveland-Cliffs and the Department of Energy announced plans to continue the use of coal at Cleveland-Cliffs’ Middletown Works steel mill today, abandoning previously announced plans to transition toward clean energy.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Today, the Tennessee Valley Authority approved its 2026 Integrated Resource Plan, setting the stage to overbuild risky gas power plants to serve A.I. data center interests.
NATIONWIDE — New sales data shows that Toyota’s plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) sales are increasing due to the automaker expanding availability of the PHEV models to dealers across the country.
Salt Lake City – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its latest step to eliminate protections under the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, claiming the move is necessary to reduce wildfire risk and expand forest management. Since the Forest Service created the Roadless Rule in 2001, it has protected undeveloped roadless areas across the country.
Today, the Trump administration announced it is repealing the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This measure conserves more than 58 million acres of National Forest lands by preventing road building, hardrock mining, oil and gas and industrial logging, and was one of the most popular rules in U.S. history after an extensive public process to generate more than 1.6 million comments.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Today, the USDA Forest Service released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the proposed repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, with a 30-day public comment period opening Aug. 20.