NIPSCO unveiled a plan to retire its last remaining coal-burning power plants within 10 years and replace them with renewable energy in Northwest Indiana. At the company’s 20-year planning meeting, community members shared a video montage of NIPSCO customer concerns -- which still must be addressed in the company’s transition plan.
The City of Cleveland is the first municipality in Ohio to commit to powering itself with 100 percent clean and renewable electricity.
Duke Energy has activated a high-level emergency at the retired L.V. Sutton coal-fired power plant, as flood waters from the nearby Cape Fear River have overtaken an earthen dike and Sutton Lake in Wilmington. Meanwhile, multiple releases of pollution from the H.F. Lee coal plant have surged into the Neuse River in Goldsboro.
San Juan, P.R. -- Tomorrow, September 20th, marks one year since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, eventually taking nearly three thousand lives.
In response, Jose Menendez, Chapter Chair for Sierra Club de Puerto Rico, issued the following statement:
RALEIGH, N.C. -- President Trump today visited communities in North and South Carolina that were hard-hit by Hurricane Florence. Trump’s visit comes as the Carolinas continue to reel from deaths and destruction caused by Florence, and a day before the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s devastating landfall in Puerto Rico.
AEP Ohio filed plans for the single largest clean energy development in Ohio history - at least 900 megawatts of new wind and solar generation, would more than double the amount of utility scale clean energy in the state.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018, Governor Rauner’s Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) will hold a public hearing to receive comments regarding an operating permit for Dynegy-Vistra’s E.D. Edwards coal-fired power plant near Bartonville. The IEPA issued an initial draft “Title V” Operating Permit for E.D. Edwards in 2005. However, the permit was then “stayed” and has not become effective due to the State’s administrative review process; in other words, since 1990 the Edwards coal plant has never received a finalized Title V operating permit as required under the Federal Clean Air Act.
A Wyoming federal court issued a ruling invalidating long-term approval for a state-run elk feedground on the Bridger-Teton National Forest in the Gros Ventre River valley, east of Jackson Hole. With the deadly and highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) already within the Yellowstone ecosystem, conservation groups had challenged approval of the Alkali Creek Elk Feedground, which concentrates herds of elk in unhealthy conditions for the winter months.
Today, Ryan Zinke’s Department of the Interior released its final rule effectively eliminating a key safeguard that would limit methane pollution and other harmful emissions from oil and gas drilling operations on public lands.
Wilmington, NC -- Donald Trump took to Twitter today in an attempt to politicize the response to Hurricane Florence. This comes days after Trump denied that 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
In response, Sierra Club North Carolina Chapter Director Molly Diggins released the following statement: