ATLANTA, GA -- Today, the Sierra Club submitted its opening brief to the Georgia Court of Appeals in Sierra Club v. Georgia Public Service Commission and Georgia Power Company over the company’s 2019 rate case where the Southern Company subsidiary was approved to collect $525 million from ratepayers for coal ash pond closure costs.
Mobile County, AL -- This month, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) is accepting public comments about Alabama Power’s plans to “cap-in-place” 21 million tons of coal ash at Plant Barry near Mobile. The deadline for public comment submissions is April 6 at 5 p.m. CST.
INDIANAPOLIS — Duke Energy plans to shutter its Gallagher Station by June 1, moving up original plans to retire the coal plant in 2022.
The Illinois Pollution Control Board’s February 5th revisions to coal ash regulations proposed by the Illinois EPA make progress towards rectifying coal's dirty legacy in Illinois, but more can be done, said several environmental groups.
The Sierra Club and South Carolina’s environmental regulators have entered into an agreement to update permits at three coal burning power plants that have been discharging mercury, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants into local waterways using permits that expired as long ago as 2010.
Atlanta, GA -- Last week, the Sierra Club continued its legal battle in Sierra Club v. Georgia Public Service Commission and Georgia Power Company over Georgia Power’s 2019 rate case. Specifically, appealing coal ash recovery costs to the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Under growing pressure from state regulators, the governor and thousands of customers, Dominion Energy has agreed to a six-month pause on its request for a 7.8% electricity rate increase, which would have raised the average residential bill by $10 a month.
Dominion Energy South Carolina must do a comprehensive coal fleet retirement analysis and assess replacement of the plants, and it must be completed before the utility makes decisions about spending customers’ money to retrofit the Williams and Wateree plants to comply with federal rules meant to protect waterways from mercury, arsenic, and other pollutants from coal plant wastewater.
El ex cabildero de la industria carbonera y administrador de la Agencia de ProtecciĂłn Ambiental (EPA), Andrew Wheeler, presentĂł un nuevo debilitamiento de las protecciones de la limpieza del agua
Duke Energy has filed its long-term energy plans with state regulators, laying out options that could bring an end to most coal burning by 2030, but that still envision decades of dependence on dangerous fracked gas.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has failed in its obligation to protect the water quality and health of families living near the Cross, Winyah and Wateree coal plants, all of which are located in predominantly Black and low-income communities. At all three sites, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits—which monitor and limit industrial discharge into waterways—expired almost a decade ago.
ATLANTA, GA - During Southern Company’s May 27th Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Tom Fanning, CEO, made an announcement that committed the company to “net zero” emissions by 2050. Along the way, the utility claimed it will cut its carbon emissions in half by 2030 based on a 2007 baseline.