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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 211-204 to pass HR 845, the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, which would strip protections from gray wolves across the continental U.S. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Tom Tiffany (R-WI), would remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the U.S. within 60 days, and would also deny judicial review of the delisting.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for scrapping decades-old rules protecting Americans’ right to participate in environmental reviews for logging, mining, drilling, road construction and other industrial projects on their public lands.
NASHVILLE - Congress has confirmed four of President Donald Trump's nominees for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors.
CAMERON PARISH, La. - Today, three environmental groups filed a challenge to the reissued coastal use permit for the proposed Commonwealth LNG export facility.
Today, the House of Representatives passed the “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act,” or the SPEED Act. Rather than fixing the real barriers slowing clean energy projects, the SPEED Act weakens the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in ways that would do little to lower costs or accelerate clean energy, while making it easier for polluting projects to move forward without accountability.
Franklin County, Illinois - Today, Prairie Rivers Network and Sierra Club Illinois are suing the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a federally owned public power provider, to block the federal government from a massive expansion of coal mining in Illinois.
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released consumer price index data for September to November, showing a 2.7% increase in inflation for goods and services. BLS did not release an October report due to Republicans’ refusal to fund affordable healthcare, which ignited the longest government shutdown in history, which many economists argue distorts the data released today. Prices are up across the board and one of the driving factors of inflation is energy prices, which rose 4.2% over the year.
Gov. Pritzker Signs SB 2111 Into Law