ANNAPOLIS, MD - Today, landmark coal transition legislation sponsored by Senator Chris West (R - District 42), Senator Brian Feldman (D - District 15), Delegate Benjamin Brooks (D - District 10) & Delegate Kumar Barve (D - District 17) will be heard by the Senate Finance Committee starting at 1 pm.
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Sun Prairie, WI -- This morning, Alliant Energy subsidiary Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL) announced plans to retire the two units at the Columbia coal plant -- which Alliant Energy co-owns with Madison Gas & Electric and Wisconsin Public Service -- in 2023 and 2024, a move that will result in Alliant Energy being coal-free in Wisconsin more than 15 years earlier than the company’s previous commitment. Today’s announcement is the result of Alliant Energy’s comprehensive resource planning process, in which Sierra Club and other stakeholders began participating in 2019, and continued collaborative discussions. Alliant Energy’s planning process was the first of its kind in Wisconsin, and included economic analysis of the company’s coal plants compared to clean energy resources like solar, wind and battery storage, which resulted in its “Clean Energy Blueprint” plan. The decision to retire the Columbia plant early is a significant step forward for the Blueprint, and follows Alliant Energy’s decision last year to retire the Edgewater coal plant in 2022 and invest in 1,000 MW of solar by 2023.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana vacated the Trump Administration’s “anti-science” rule today, and remanded it back to the EPA. The scientific and legal community have long cast doubt on the safety and legality of the rule, which would exclude important medical research from EPA’s rulemaking process.
DOVER, DE - On the first day after President Biden refocused the nation’s commitment to climate action, the first state passed a clean energy bill that will increase the amount of renewable energy from 25% to 40% to Delaware homes and businesses. The Renewable Portfolio Standard bill, known as S.B. 33 introduced by State Sen. Hansen and Rep.
DOVER, DE - The Renewable Portfolio Standard bill, known as S.B. 33 introduced by State Sen. Hansen, Rep. Heffernan, Rep. Moore, Rep. Osienski, Rep. Bush, Sen. McBride passed both chambers of the Delaware General Assembly. The legislation will increase Delaware’s utilization of renewable energy by expanding the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard from 25% to 40% renewable energy by 2035 for regulated utilities.
The U.S. District Court for Montana ruled on Wednesday evening that the Trump Administration’s EPA acted unlawfully when it finalized its anti-science rule by making the rule effective immediately.
Como parte de su promesa de actuar con premura climática, la administración Biden anunció que suspenderá todos los nuevos arrendamientos de extracción petrolera y gasera en terrenos y vías acuáticas públicos, revisar los arrendamientos y permisos existentes, e incrementar el desarrollo de complejos eólicos marinos.
Madison, WI -- Today, Sierra Club and Vote Solar filed a lawsuit appealing Madison Gas & Electric’s (MGE) regressive utility rates that impose high costs on low-income customers and discourage investments in energy efficiency and rooftop solar. The decision approving the rates in late December violated several laws, including Wisconsin’s landmark Energy Priorities Law, which requires maximizing energy conservation, efficiency and solar generation.
This week, Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool, which grades utilities based on their plans to retire coal plants, stop building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy -- allowing readers to judge each utility’s climate progress and how it compares to what science demands.
Sierra Club and partners including the Ohio Environmental Council, and individual Ohio residents represented by the AltmanNewman law firm, took action to stop the rollback of a critical environmental and public health rule instigated by the former Trump Administration.