Duke Energy Indiana, which serves more than 850,000 customers statewide, earns an F in the report for the huge conflict between its claims of embracing clean energy while still planning to build new gas plants and refusing to stop burning coal.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA -- The Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool today that grades utilities based on their plans to retire coal plants, stop building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy. The tool gives the public the power to judge each utility’s climate progress based on its stated carbon reduction goals and how that compares to what science actually demands.
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- The Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool today, 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 based on its stated carbon reduction goals and how that compares to what science actually demands. Sierra Club will update the scores in this analysis on a regular basis.
The Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool today, 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.
Today marked the end of a two and a half year public input process by the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) to reevaluate and, potentially, modernize the state’s energy system. In August 2018, the ACC opened up a docket (RU-00000A-18-0284) colloquially known as the Arizona Clean Energy Rules, which could impact everything from updating energy use and efficiency standards to utilities’ resource planning rules. In November 2020, the ACC voted to advance the energy rules to formal rulemaking.
Today, a coalition of environmental and community groups brought a challenge to a Trump Administration rule designed to make it harder for communities impacted by coal mining to hold state regulators and mining companies accountable for violating environmental protections. The Trump rule inserts a new process which, at best, will significantly delay actions to address violations and, at worst, will allow regulators to avoid addressing these violations entirely.
Sierra Club and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against EPA after former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler (for the next 24 hours) declined to correct the legal limit for dangerous particulate matter pollution, also known as soot. Wheeler had instead decided to retain the flawed 2012 standard despite medical evidence that the 2012 standard fails to protect public health.
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the ‘Affordable Clean Energy’ rule and remanded it to the EPA.
The Sierra Club and South Carolina’s environmental regulators have entered into an agreement to update permits at three coal burning power plants that have been discharging mercury, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants into local waterways using permits that expired as long ago as 2010.
Kansas City, MO -- Following Sierra Club’s intervention, Evergy customers will not have to pay for electricity they did not use during the COVID-19 crisis. Last year, Evergy asked the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) for the ability to track lost revenues because of decreased power sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, which would have allowed the utility to recover the money from customers in a future rate case. The utility withdrew this proposal as part of an order the PSC issued yesterday.