During a board meeting on Aug. 23, the utility announced its second rate increase this year, adding another 5.25% in increased electricity costs to consumer bills, in part to subsidize unproven small modular nuclear reactor technology that the utility is banking on rather than increasing investment in renewable energy and necessary transmission infrastructure.
Elba, AL – Two of the nation’s leading environmental leaders, Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University, and Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous will participate in a “Journey to Justice” tour on Tuesday August 27 in Elba, Alabama’s Black Shiloh community. Shiloh has been plagued with flooding. Residents believe the flooding is caused by a federally funded highway expansion project. Elba is Dr. Bullard’s hometown.
Butler, PA – Cleveland-Cliffs and the Department of Energy Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP), recently announced that the company’s Butler Works facility – the only American manufacturer of grain-oriented electrical steel, which is a critical material for the clean energy transition – has
Kansas City, Kansas– Ten scenarios for a 20 year Integrated Resources Plan (IRP) were presented to the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) last night. The IRP should have provided affordable, reliable, least-risk scenarios to help BPU meet energy needs in the years to come.
TALENT, OR — As extreme weather, including scorching heat waves, threatens large parts of Oregon, Talent’s City Council voted yesterday to pass Resolution 2024-097-R, which encourages upgrades of homes and nonresidential buildings so they have modern, highly efficient appliances.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the D.C. District Court denied an attempt by Signal Peak Energy to force the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) to rush an environmental review of a proposed 175-million-ton expansion at the Bull Mountains coal mine in Montana — which aims to be the nation’s largest remaining underground coal mine.
Wyoming – In its proposed partial disapproval of Wyoming’s State Implementation Plan earlier this month, the EPA has confirmed a retirement date for PacifiCorp’s Dave Johnston coal Unit 3, one of four units at the plant. In its recent proposed rule, EPA declared that the retirement of the unit has a federally-enforceable commitment to shut down by 2027. The utility has also maintained the same retirement date in its latest Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) meant to forecast how it will source energy for the next two decades.
Cameron, Louisiana – Today, community and environmental groups filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop construction of a massive methane gas facility. If built, the facility would create greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 14 coal-fired power plants or 13 million new gasoline powered vehicles.
Boston, MA – EnergySage, the leading home electrification marketplace, and Sierra Club, the country’s most historic grassroots environmental organization, are thrilled to announce the launch of their new partnership. As part of Sierra Club's efforts to promote climate and clean energy solutions, EnergySage will serve as the solar support team for Sierra Club’s 3.5 million members, making it easier for them to adopt clean energy and contribute to a more sustainable future.
This week, the Sierra Club, alongside West Virginia residents and ratepayers Bruce Perrone and Rosanna Long, filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of West Virginia against the Commissioners of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSC) for their 2021 directive that coal plants operate at 69% capacity – far beyond the average of coal plants in the region.