INDIANAPOLIS – Today, as Americans are preparing for the holidays, the Trump administration issued an ‘emergency’ order to forcibly and illegally extend operations of F.B. Culley and R.M. Schahfer coal plants past their scheduled retirement, based on a sham reliability crisis that does not exist. The high cost to keep these aging coal plants online to, in part, power AI data centers are expected to be passed onto Hoosier families and small businesses.
Proposed rules would undermine nation's most successful conservation law
NATIONAL — Trump’s Department of the Interior just halted construction on all five offshore wind projects underway in the United States. The pauses impact these projects: Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind 1.
KINGSTON, Tenn. - Families and allies of cleanup workers are carrying on their legacy for the 17th anniversary of the Kingston Coal Ash Spill, the first anniversary since the creation of a historic marker for the tragedy.
SUPERIOR, Wis. — Today, in a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission filing by Minnesota Power, the company announced that it will withdraw from the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant project, which it had been developing with Dairyland Power Cooperative (based in Wisconsin) and Basin Electric Power Cooperative (based in North Dakota).
RALEIGH, N.C. - Today, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has approved the water and air permits for Transco’s proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project pipeline.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Sierra Club, represented by its Environmental Law Program, and allied organizations represented by Trustees for Alaska filed a notice flagging ESA violations by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that threaten polar bears with expanded oil and gas exploration, drilling, and development activities in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge—an area important for maternal polar bear denning
ATLANTA - Today, the Georgia Public Service Commission approved Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the country.
OMAHA, Neb. — Today, the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) board voted to extend the life of a dangerous coal-fired power plant that has been harming the health of North Omaha families for more than 70 years. In 2014, OPPD committed to retiring the polluting North Omaha Station, which has a documented history of reliability issues. The majority of OPPD board members have decided to no longer honor that commitment and now plan to burn coal indefinitely at the North Omaha Station.
The Commission missed an important opportunity to protect ratepayers from corporate greed today by caving to utility pressure and even backtracking on the already-modest profit cuts they proposed in November.