Utility Withdraws New Coal Financing, Following National Trend of Coal Losing Market Share to Clean Energy Atlanta, GA – In another strike against coal, a local utility near Atlanta voted late Tuesday to cancel funding for two proposed new coal-fired power plant projects. Over the past decade three coal plants have been proposed in Georgia. [...]
WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced the availability of a report by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and the possible impacts of new emission standards for the control of regional haze. DOI commissioned the study and will provide it to the [...]
Dozens of events nationwide, new resources come just ahead of expected mercury protections from the Obama administration Washington, D.C. – The Sierra Club celebrates Mercury Awareness Week December 5-11 as President Obama prepares to issue the first nationwide protections against toxic mercury from coal plants later this month. Americans are planning rallies and awareness events [...]
Austin, TX – Yesterday, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell renewed his commitment to end the city’s power contract with the Fayette coal fired power plant and seek renewable alternative to power Austin. In a speech today, the Mayor noted ending this relationship is a top tier priority for his office. When the transition to renewables is [...]
Sierra Club Celebrates Dominion Decision to Phase out Under Pressure from Activists, Yorktown and Chesapeake Generating Stations to be Retired Richmond, VA – Dominion Resources Inc., the Commonwealth of Virginia’s largest utility, announced today that it will phase out two of its oldest and dirtiest coal fired power plants. The Chesapeake and Yorktown plants, situated [...]
Huge public health victory comes after years of pressure from local citizens and the Sierra Club Alexandria, Virginia – Today, Mayor William D. Euille of Alexandria and GenOn Energy, Inc. announced the planned retirement of the Potomac River Generating Station, a sixty-two year old coal-fired power plant on the banks of the Potomac River in [...]
Portland, OR – The Sierra Club today announced that the organization’s Beyond Coal campaign has reached a significant milestone. With the retirement of Oregon’s Boardman coal plant, the campaign has now phased out 30,000 megawatts of dirty coal that would have spewed roughly the same amount of carbon pollution as 36 million passenger vehicles, as [...]
The E.J. Stoneman Station biomass power plant, owned and operated by DTE Energy Services (Ann Arbor, Mich.), is delivering power. Dairyland Power Cooperative (La Crosse, Wis.) is purchasing the entire 40 MW output of the renewable energy facility to help serve the energy needs of its member cooperative consumers. “DTE Energy Services is proud to [...]
Solar Trust of America says its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium LLC, has received unanimous approval from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build and operate its 1,000 MW Blythe Solar Thermal Power Project in Riverside County. This would be the largest concentrating solar power (CSP) facility in the world, the company says. The project [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the state of Indiana announced that Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $950,000 and install and upgrade pollution control technology at its two coal-fired power plants in Indiana to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act. The [...]
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