Press Releases

This week, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued a proposal to streamline processes for communities to report violations of federal coal mining laws, rolling back burdens the Trump Administration placed on mining communities. 

CenterPoint Energy today announced its 20-year energy plan, which includes ending coal burning at its Culley 3 unit in Warrick County. Culley 3 is the last of CenterPoint’s coal units to be announced for retirement. AB Brown retires this year and Culley 2 retires in 2025. CenterPoint also plans to end its cooperation agreement with Alcoa to burn coal at Unit 4 of its Warrick Super Polluter coal plant in 2024.

On Thursday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a strong draft rule to reduce Texas coal plant pollution that causes regional haze in national parks and wilderness areas across the central United States.

St. Louis, MO – Today, the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates monopoly utilities like Ameren Missouri, unanimously approved the utility’s proposal to build and own a 150 megawatt solar farm in White County, Illinois. That is enough clean energy to power about 16,000 homes. Sierra Club intervened before the PSC in support of the Boomtown Solar Project. 

On Monday the Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and dozens of Texas residents urged the EPA to stop an East Texas coal plant from continuing to dump toxic coal ash in an unsafe pond that leaks into groundwater.

Community members and advocacy groups came together for a press conference urging the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to finally perform required audits on the OVEC plants currently receiving a bailout under the corrupt HB6 law.

The Biden administration released additional details surrounding a variety of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) programs designed to create family-sustaining manufacturing jobs in hard-hit communities, lower costs on energy efficient appliances like heat pumps, provide public health benefits to communities, and accelerate the clean energy transition.

TUCSON, ARIZONA – Today numerous Tucson community members and Arizona residents spoke out at the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) to advocate against Tucson Electric Power's (TEP) proposed 11.8% rate increase and the $2.00 fee increase, which would raise residential ratepayers' bills by an average of $16.22 per month while prolonging TEP's use of dirty and expensive fossil fuel infrastructure.

La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) actuó para abordar la dañina contaminación de smog u ozono de superficie finalizando su Plan de Buen Vecino como parte del Estándar de Calidad del Aire Ambiental Nacional de 2015.