Gina McCarthy, the Power Plant Carbon Standards, and Reducing the Risks of Power Outages
This is a guest post by John Rogers, senior energy analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and co-manager of the Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative (EW3) that…
TVA Considers Retirement of Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis, TN
Today the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) released a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) outlining its plans to retire the Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis and to replace it with a new natural gas-fired…
EPA carbon rule good for business ... and for people
This post - written by John Noel, President of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy's board of directors - originally appeared in the Tennessean on June 25 and can be viewed here. The recent…
Carbon Regulation for Existing Coal Plants On the Horizon
In less than a week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will unveil its first ever carbon pollution standards for existing coal-fired power plants. These proposed standards are expected to be released on…
Breaking News: Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule!
After a trip through the United States' court system that brought it all the way to the Supreme Court, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) friendly ghost of interstate air pollution is alive…
Toxic Mercury Pollution Limits Survive Major Court Challenge
This guest post was originally published by Environmental Defense Fund on its Climate 411 blog and was co-authored by Pamela Campos, EDF attorney, and Mandy Warner, EDF Climate & Air Policy Specialist. Find the…
Join Hands to Protect Our Treasured Places!
For the past four years, there has been one annual worldwide grassroots event that has championed the cause of clean energy as a replacement to risky fossil fuels: Hands Across the Sand.…
Clean Coal: A Costly Chimera?
The subject of coal has been dominating news lately. After being unregulated for decades, the Environmental Protection Agency is finally crafting regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. Currently, proposed…
Duke Energy: This is Not Leadership
Shorter versions of this oped were originally published in North Carolina in the Charlotte Observer on February 10, 2014 (found here) and in Florida in the Tampa Bay Times on February 11,…
Update on How the Coal Processing Chemical Spill Continues to Disrupts Life in West Virginia
UPDATE: Ten days later, as of January 23, my mother-in-law is still not using her water. The ban was lifted for her area about 3-4 days after my original post on January…