April 22, 2021
AEP/Indiana-Michigan Power has announced a full retirement of the Rockport Super Polluter coal plant by 2028.
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April 19, 2021
Jackson, MS -- Late last week, Southern Company subsidiary Mississippi Power released its Integrated Resource Plan, which details the utility’s long term plans for providing power to its Mississippi customers.
April 15, 2021
Des Moines, Iowa -- Today the new CEO of utility company MidAmerican, Kelcey Brown, received a gift basket with a petition signed by over 1300 Iowans and letters from local clean air advocates at Clean Air Muscatine calling on the utility to commit to a plan to go 100% clean energy.
April 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, a broad coalition of 95 environmental organizations and local community groups called on the Biden Administration to fix a glaring environmental justice problem by closing the Startup, Shutdown, Malfunction (SSM) loopholes. The groups sent a letter and filed a legal petition to urge EPA to prioritize closing the loopholes. The SSM loopholes allow polluting facilities like coal plants and oil refineries to release unlimited amounts of dangerous air pollution during routine events, without facing legal consequences under the Clean Air Act. This toxic pollution causes severe health consequences in fenceline and nearby communities and has historically had a disproportionate impact on low-income communities and communities of color that live near polluting facilities.
April 9, 2021
Richmond, VA-- Today the Sierra Club filed the expert testimony of Rachel Wilson of Synapse Energy Economics with the State Corporation Commission (SCC) opposing Appalachian Power Company’s (APCo) request to charge ratepayers to maintain the Amos and Mountaineer coal plants in West Virginia through 2040 rather than investing in more cost-effective clean energy.
April 8, 2021
St. Louis, MO -- Tonight, Missourians from throughout the state held a virtual rally to demand that the state’s largest coal polluting utilities quickly transition to clean energy. The rally builds on the The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges report released by Sierra Club in January.
April 6, 2021
Illinois -- As part of a settlement agreement with the Sierra Club, Vistra Energy announced today that it would be closing its Joppa coal plant by September 1, 2022 - three years earlier than Vistra had previously announced. The agreement resolves groundwater litigation Sierra Club brought in 2018 before the Illinois Pollution Control Board to hold Vistra Energy accountable for dozens of exceedances of state groundwater standards documented at groundwater monitoring wells surrounding coal ash ponds at the Edwards, Coffeen, and Joppa coal plant sites. The agreement commits Vistra Energy to pay a portion of property taxes for three additional years to local taxing bodies following the closure of Joppa and to install additional groundwater monitors at its Edwards and Joppa sites.
April 5, 2021
Mobile County, Ala. — Last Friday, Sierra Club and GASP filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s (ADEM) issuance of a final Title V Permit for Plant Barry near Mobile. The permit was issued on February 2, 2021.
March 30, 2021
Wise, VA - The environment and the communities who live near coal strip mines in Virginia suffered a major setback today. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a District Court decision allowing a coal mine to continue discharging high levels of harmful pollution into surrounding communities’ streams and rivers.
March 30, 2021
Denver, Colo. (March 30, 2021) — A coalition of conservation and environmental justice groups today backed newly introduced legislation to reduce harmful greenhouse gas pollution in Colorado. SB21-200, Reduce Greenhouse Gases Increase Environmental Justice, would get Colorado on track to reach its 2025 and 2030 climate pollution reduction goals by putting the sector-specific emission limits in Governor Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap into law.
March 29, 2021
The Biden Administration announced a far reaching wind energy plan today that will dramatically expand the development of offshore wind farms off the United States’ East Coast to create jobs, protect the environment, and combat the climate crisis.
March 29, 2021
Middletown, CT -- Environment, clean energy and community activists submitted comments on Friday to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) in opposition to its tentative approval of air permits for a Middletown fossil fuel power plant.