On Monday, Jan 31st, Detroit activists, environmental advocates, and energy experts hosted a virtual press event highlighting energy burden and racial disparity concerns in Detroit. As part of an ongoing campaign to educate the public, connect people with resources, and call attention to what energy burden looks like in Detroit, several billboards have been placed around the city. While these billboards will soon be coming down, work around this issue will continue; Earlier this month, a settlement agreement was made between DTE and advocates which will result in more resources available for low-income households and high-need communities.
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) anunció hoy una propuesta para revertir la decisión de la administración Trump de eliminar resultados “apropiados y necesarios” para regular el mercurio y otros compuestos peligrosos procedentes de las plantas térmicas de carbón.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Biden’s EPA announced a proposal to reverse the Trump Administration’s decision eliminating the “appropriate and necessary” finding for regulating mercury and other hazardous air pollution from power plants. The move comes after an executive order signed by President Biden last year to review the Trump-era rollback and develop a new proposal.
On Monday, January 31, 2022 at 11:00 AM Detroit activists, environmental advocates, and energy experts will come together to host a virtual press event highlighting energy burden and racial disparity concerns in Detroit. As part of an ongoing campaign to educate the public, connect people with resources, and call attention to what energy burden looks like in Detroit, several billboards have been placed around the city.
It’s a dereliction of duty and a betrayal to Hoosiers everywhere that Sen. Messmer has refused to hear this legislation and listen to young people.
An increasingly broad coalition of groups, including trade associations, public health organizations, legal experts, states and cities, and utilities, is asking the Supreme Court to uphold strong EPA authority to limit carbon pollution from power plants
Today, the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) approved a settlement agreement between DTE, the Sierra Club, Ecology Center, Earthjustice, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), National Housing Trust, and other parties regarding DTE’s electric and gas energy efficiency plans (referred to in Michigan as “energy waste reduction”). Through the process mandated by state law, Michigan utilities must file plans to allocate resources that improve energy efficiency and reduce wasted electricity in their service territory. DTE is required to deliver customers at least 2% energy savings annually, following the outcome of their most recent Integrated Resource Plan. As Michigan’s largest utility, DTE serves millions of customers and how it funds and prioritizes energy efficiency spending has huge impacts on the communities affected.
RICHMOND -- Yesterday afternoon, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that he would withdraw his office from a lawsuit in which the Commonwealth of Virginia was previously defending life-saving climate action and clean air safeguards before the Supreme Court.
ATLANTA, GA – Today, the Sierra Club is announcing its intention to participate in the 2022 Georgia Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) process. During this process, Georgia Power (owned by Southern Company) will propose its plan for how it will procure energy over the next two decades, which must be approved by the Public Service Commission (PSC).
Oklahoma City, OK - Organizations representing concerned Oklahomans are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) approval of the state’s coal ash program. The groups argue that the EPA unlawfully failed to provide adequate public participation and allowed Oklahoma to issue dangerous “permits for life” to coal ash facilities. “Permits for life” deprive the public and regulators of predictable reviews of legal requirements and onsite conditions at coal ash facilities, like what’s required for air emissions and water discharge permits.
Sweeping Attack on EPA Authority is Based on a Policy That Was Never Enforced and Will Never Go Into Effect
Powder River Basin Resource Council, National Parks Conservation Association, and Sierra Club welcomed a decision from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposing to deny a change to a long-standing pollution control plan for the Jim Bridger coal plant in Wyoming.