Houston, TX – A new report by the Sierra Club has revealed that soot pollution from the Parish coal plant kills 109 people each year, making it the eighth most deadly coal plant in the nation. In 2019, Parish emitted 29,000 tons of sulfur dioxide pollution – the third most of all U.S. coal plants.
Dallas, TX – A new report by the Sierra Club has revealed that soot pollution from the Martin Lake coal plant in Tatum kills 154 people each year, making it the fifth most deadly coal plant in the nation.
Un nuevo informe del Sierra Club revela que la contaminación de hollÃn procedente de plantas de combustión de carbón causa 3.800 muertes prematuras al año.
St. Louis, MO – A report released by Sierra Club today reveals that Ameren Missouri’s Labadie coal plant is the second deadliest for soot in the country, contributing to 195 premature deaths annually. Labadie will cause another 3,387 premature deaths by the time it retires based on the coal plant’s 2019 pollution levels.
Yesterday, Sierra Club sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to implement a federal plan to eliminate harmful levels of sulfur dioxide pollution from Luminant’s Martin Lake coal plant, as required by the Clean Air Act.
A new report out today from Greenlink Analytics shows a large disparity between the energy burden faced by different communities across Orlando, from a low of 1.8% to as high as 9.2%.
On Feb. 14, the Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for rejecting the state government’s plan to reduce smog pollution that crosses into other states. The TX plan fails to require any air pollution reductions at all.
Speakers from environmental, public health, and community groups gathered outside the EPA Region 6 Office in Dallas and urged the agency to strengthen its federal rule on regional haze, a smoggy-like substance that forms when pollution, like sulfur dioxide from coal plants, mixes with other particles in the air.
St. Louis, MO -- Organizations are uniting to oppose Ameren Missouri’s proposed $316 million rate increase for its customers. More than 200,000 customers continue to struggle during the uneven economic recovery from the pandemic as Ameren’s profits soar. Ameren’s request for a rate increase with the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC), if approved, would add $12 per month for the average residential electric customer, including a $3 increase to fixed fees. Ameren seeks this rate increase as its net income was $990 million in 2021.
TEXAS -- Today, in a victory for communities around the country and a positive step toward clean water for all, EPA announced utilities in several states, including Luminant’s Martin Lake coal-fired power plant near Tatum, Texas, can no longer dump toxic coal ash waste into unlined ponds, denying utilities’ requests to continue the harmful and irresponsible practice.
The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) approved the Appalachian Power Company’s (APCo) 2022 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) as reasonable for purposes of planning.
San Antonio, TX – Today, the CPS Energy Board of Trustees approved a plan to retire the utility’s last remaining coal plant – the Spruce coal plant – by 2028. The announcement follows decades of community outcry about the plant, which advocates criticize for its contribution to global warming, air pollution, water pollution, and cost to CPS Energy ratepayers.