SPRINGDALE, PA-- Today, the Sierra Club sent a “notice of intent to sue” letter to NRG Power Midwest alleging serious violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) at the company’s Cheswick coal-fired power plant in Springdale. The plant has been discharging heated wastewater into the Allegheny River at temperatures over nine-times what is currently allowed--potentially affecting the waterway’s local ecosystem and killing aquatic species.
Oscoda, MI-- Today, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is holding a public meeting after announcing a non-binding, verbal agreement with the Air Force. Both parties controversially claimed the agreement would speed the cleanup of PFAS contamination at the closed Wurtsmith Air Force base in the area-- an area where surrounding communities have long suffered with contaminated water.
Today, PacifiCorp announced that it will be pushing back its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) filing date from August 1 to October 18. The plan was originally supposed to be filed April 1. The utility has been studying the economics of its coal fleet since August 2018, presenting new information at monthly public information meetings.
Here’s a brief recap of the process:
Abogados de enormes contaminadores corporativos presumen hoy en el New York Times de que una nueva reglamentación apunto de implementarse por la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) les permitirá eliminar obstáculos al buscar permisos para contaminar en comunidades de todo el país y apartarlas del proceso de decisión.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- E&E broke news today that Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt tomorrow will announce the agency is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management from its current base in the nation’s capital to Grand Junction, Colorado. The Department has failed to provide details of restructuring plans, leaving it unclear how this move fits into a larger scheme.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Lawyers for massive corporate polluters are bragging in the New York Times that a new policy about to be put forward by former coal lobbyist and current EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler will enable them to have fewer hurdles when seeking permission to pollute communities across the country but cutting those communities out of the process.
Almost two million Americans stated their opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to strip endangered species protections from gray wolves in a comment period that closed today. This is one of the largest numbers of comments ever submitted on a federal decision involving endangered species and reflects broad dissatisfaction with the Trump administration’s politically driven move to turn wolf management over to state agencies across most of the lower 48 states.
La administración Trump pidió hoy a la Corte Suprema de Justicia anular una decisión de una corte federal que bloquea permanentemente la construcción de su muro fronterizo usando fondos militares no autorizados por el Congreso.
Washington, DC-- Today, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a district court order permanently blocking the administration from building Trump’s border wall using military funds unauthorized by Congress.
Boston, M.A.-- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Martin Suuberg issued a rubber stamp approval of the air quality permit today for the highly-contested Weymouth compressor station. The Commissioner’s decision to ignore existing air quality data and to allow further pollution in the Fore River Basin will cause direct harm to the community if the project moves forward.