Bernard McNamee, a long time fossil fuel lawyer and architect of the Trump Administration’s failed coal bailout attempt, testified today before the United States’ Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on his nomination to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
RICHMOND, VA --Today, Dominion Energy released a coal ash report on the feasibility and cost of recycling the toxic coal plant byproduct. The report comes in the wake of coal ash disasters in neighboring North Carolina caused by Hurricane Florence, where massive amounts of coal ash pollutants were discharged into rivers and groundwater.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. – The TVA Board of Directors last Wednesday afternoon posted details about the format of their new “less formal” pilot listening session, set for today, the day before its next board meeting in Tupelo, Miss.
Club released an energy transition white paper today showing utilities and electricity market stakeholders how to harness financial tools to cost effectively accelerate the timeline for coal plant retirements, and build out cheap clean energy resources like solar and wind.
PJM Interconnection LLC, America’s largest regional transmission organization, released a study today that found there was “no imminent threat” to the reliability of their electricity marketplace.
The Sierra Club submitted more than 56,000 public comments from its members and supporters opposing the Trump Administration’s Dirty Power Plan today, the deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) comment period.
Tuesday, representatives from Greening Greater Racine, the Sierra Club, and the Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin delivered 621 petition signatures in favor of a massive solar array at the Foxconn facility in Racine to We Energies at its Milwaukee headquarters.
Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Andrew Wheeler shamelessly took credit for the Obama Administration’s environmental achievements today when he touted Greenhouse Gas Reduction (GHG) numbers for 2017.
BALTIMORE, MD — The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and the Center for Environmental Health filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today for failing to ensure that seven states, including Maryland, have effective plans in place for reducing harmful sulfur dioxide air pollution being emitted from coal-fired power plants.
Late Friday afternoon, Bloomberg News reported that the Trump administration is covering up a report commissioned by the Department of Energy that disputes the administration’s rationalization for planning to force electricity customers and taxpayers to pay tens of billions of dollars to bailout uneconomic coal plants heading for retirement.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee announced today that it will take up the nomination of coal bailout architect Bernard McNamee to FERC next week in a hurried political move to inject the Trump administration’s political agenda of backing unnecessary fracked gas pipelines and supporting a nationwide coal bailout into the historically independent agency.
WORCESTER - Hundreds of people rallied at Institute Park in Worcester to demand elected leaders take action to create a safe, healthy, sustainable, and equitable future. This event was one of over 400 taking place simultaneously around the world. Ralliers stood in solidarity with marchers in San Francisco who flooded the streets demanding action from governors and business leaders at the Global Climate Action Summit, while communities across the nation came together to galvanize engagement in the midterm elections.