May 8, 2018
The Bellingham City Council approved a resolution that establishes its commitment to a planning process that will assess the feasibility and pathways for getting to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.
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May 8, 2018
After a series of backroom talks with Texas-based Dynegy, Governor Rauner’s Illinois EPA, is pushing to weaken Illinois air pollution standards in order to pad their own profits. In addition, Dynegy-Vistra is now also asking the state legislature for permission to raise rates on Central and Southern Illinois households, claiming that ratepayer-funded bailouts are needed to keep coal plants open due to the company’s financial hardship. However, the recent $20 billion merger between Dynegy and Vistra Energy tells a different story, as does a recent interview with Vistra’s CEO highlighted in Sierra Club’s video.
May 8, 2018
Washington State's Utilities and Transportation Commission had some strong words for Puget Sound Energy over their continued use of the Colstrip coal plant in Eastern Montana - the largest source of climate pollution in the Western United States.
May 1, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt designated 51 areas in the United States as out of compliance with the new, stronger smog pollution standard of 70 parts per billion, but omitted important areas that are likely out of compliance based on earlier scientific findings.
May 1, 2018
RICHMOND, Virginia -- In written comments today to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, Governor Northam stated that he would not support the EPA’s revisions to lessen protections for clean water from coal ash pollution. In addition, Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality made a commitment to maintain the strong safeguards against coal ash pollution in the state, despite potential weakening of federal regulations.
April 30, 2018
A Florida judge has ruled that Sierra Club, on behalf of its nearly 38,000 Florida members, can intervene in FPL’s request to build a fracked gas power plant in the Dania Beach community.
April 30, 2018
Contura Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc. announced today that the two coal mining companies have reached a “definitive merger agreement” that will re-merge the companies in order to try and compete in America’s declining coal industry.
April 30, 2018
Contura Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc. announced today that the two coal mining companies have reached a “definitive merger agreement” that will re-merge the companies in order to try and compete in America’s declining coal industry.
April 30, 2018
Sierra Club and clean water coalition partners submitted 56,703 comments today demanding EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt keep in place federal protections against toxic coal ash - the dangerous waste product of coal-fired power plants.
April 30, 2018
Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill that will force Tennessee taxpayers to shoulder the costly burden of permitting and regulating coal mining in the state.
April 30, 2018
Philadelphia, P.A. — PJM Interconnection, the regional electric grid operator for 13 states including Pennsylvania, announced its grid reliability analysis for the FirstEnergy Solutions’ Beaver County Nuclear Power Plant today. The report states that transmission upgrades will be necessary to maintain grid reliability should the nuclear plant retire. Most of those upgrades are already planned and the plant should be able to retire as scheduled.
April 26, 2018
Sierra Club and its allies submitted more than 115 thousand comments today demanding scandal ridden EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt leave the Clean Power Plan in place.