Renner Barsella is an associate press secretary for the midwest with the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.
Madison, WI - Today, Alliant Energy announced a settlement with Sierra Club, Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, Citizens Utility Board, Clean Wisconsin, RENEW Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Paper…
SPRINGFIELD, IL -- Today, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced a much anticipated proposal for sweeping legislation aimed at reforming the state’s energy sector, phasing out fossil fuel use, and…
MUSCATINE, IA -- At Thursday night’s meeting of the Muscatine Power & Water (MPW) board, Sierra Club presented a new analysis finding that investing in a clean energy portfolio would be cheaper…
MADISON, WI -- Today, Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes released the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change Report that included 55 policy recommendations to address climate change in…
DES MOINES, IA -- By December 21, the Des Moines City Council is expected to vote on a resolution committing to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030. As an advocate for clean energy commitments across…
Milwaukee, WI -- This week, WEC Energy Group announced it plans to retire 1400 MW of coal by 2025, starting with the four remaining units (1192 MW) at the South Oak Creek coal plant in 2023 and 2024…
OAK CREEK, WI -- The Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin hosted an online press conference Thursday morning on the ninth anniversary of the We Energies’ Oak Creek bluff collapse incident…
CHICAGO, IL -- Six months after a poorly executed implosion at the former Crawford coal plant, community activists are escalating the demand for answers with billboards calling out the developer,…
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA -- This morning Alliant Energy announced that by the end of 2022, the utility plans to retire the last 275 MW power generating unit at its Lansing coal plant near Lansing, Iowa, and…
OAK CREEK, WI -- On Thursday, October 29 at 10:00 AM, the Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin will host an online event remembering the shoreline bluff collapse at We Energies’ coal-fired…