October 13, 2017
TEXAS -- Luminant Energy’s announcement to close three of the nation’s largest and dirtiest coal plants in Central Texas means that more than half of the coal plants in America have retired or committed to retire since 2010.
Press Releases
October 12, 2017
Jackson, Mississippi - Today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, met with officials and media in Mississippi to promote rollbacks to the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP provides states a road map for a common sense approach to carbon pollution reduction goals, the flexibility to design the plan that achieves these reductions and provides incentives to states to do so.
October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last night, Politico reported on a draft document from Scott Pruitt’s EPA that would not only foreclose any possibility of a meaningful Clean Power Plan replacement, but would open the door to attacks on the proven scientific and legal principles supporting EPA’s duty to protect the health of the public from dangerous greenhouse gas pollution.
October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC - Donald Trump went on an extended twitter tirade against the people of Puerto Rico this morning, tweeting among other things that the U.S. Island was alone responsible for its financial crisis, and threatening to abandon any long term commitment to recovery efforts. The vast majority of the Puerto Rico still lacks electricity and many have no clean water to speak of.
October 12, 2017
Concord, N.H. —Results of the auction involving Eversource’s (formerly Public Service Company of New Hampshire) power plants were announced today, including Atlas Holdings and Castleton Commodities International as the proposed buyers of the Merrimack and Schiller coal-fired power plants. The Public Utilities Commission of New Hampshire still must approve the sale after a formal review process.
October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Representative Fred Upton (MI-6) introduced a bill that will weaken vehicle fuel economy safeguards. The bill is another attempt by automakers to roll back the consumer and climate protections they agreed to under the Obama administration.
October 12, 2017
Today, attorneys for the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates filed an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court to ensure that a deal for fracked gas shipping capacity is reviewed for conflicts of interest. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline presents a major conflict of interest because the companies that own the pipeline, including Dominion Energy, also own the utilities that have purchased shipping capacity on the pipeline.
October 11, 2017
OAKLAND, CA -- At least 21 people have died as wildfires continue to burn across northern California.
October 11, 2017
Today, environmental and landowner groups argued in opposition to an attempt by the Trump administration and Canadian oil giant TransCanada to dismiss a lawsuit against the administration for approving a cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline without complying with environmental laws.
October 11, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump administration negotiators will again meet behind closed doors with representatives from Mexico and Canada to begin the fourth round of renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Nearly two months into the negotiations, the Trump administration still refuses to allow the U.S. public to see or comment on any textual proposals that could impact jobs, wages, and environmental protection, despite negotiators’ promise to finalize a deal by the end of 2017.