In West Virginia, electricity bills are becoming (like health insurance) just impossible for normal people to afford. The state is also the most reliant on coal for power, and the Public Service Commission keeps approving rate hikes. www.insurancejournal.com/news/southea...
So @earthjustice.org will sue EPA again to make sure communities are protected from coal ash. Because if the coal industry does not clean up its toxic pollution, Americans will end up paying.
It's worth remembering the catastrophic disasters of the past that led to people demanding these environmental laws in the first place. Nixon created the EPA in 1970 because it turns out corporations do not curb their deadly pollution without being forced to by law.
The Trump Administration's EPA is in the midst of gutting every health and environmental safeguard as quickly as possible. But these requirements to force polluting industries to not poison our air and water - and not kill us - have broad support.
The EPA is not holding an in-person hearing on the proposal, probably bcs the last one they held was a powerful display of hundreds of people testifying about the deadly cost of not regulating coal ash. You can read their stories earthjustice.org/feature/coal...
So Earthjustice sued again, on behalf of orgs like NAACP Indiana, @hoosierenvcouncil.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social and others. And we won. Now, just as the coal power industry was about to reveal the full scale of its contamination of groundwater, the Trump Administration said 'nah.'
It took an @earthjustice.org lawsuit and years of dedicated activism from communities across the U.S. to get the EPA to issue the first-ever safeguards to protect people from toxic coal ash in 2015. The power industry fought any kind of regulation for years. And they succeeded in weakening the law.
Americans decided it was probably a good idea to set some guidelines for how power companies handle coal ash after 1 BILLION gallons of coal ash spilled from the TVA's Kingston Plant in 2008, destroying homes, poisoning rivers and contaminating drinking water across 300 acres.
In December 2008 one billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, covering 300 acres, destroying homes, poisoning rivers and contaminating coves and residential drinking waters. (Photo courtesy of United Mountain Defense)
Happy Earth month! Yesterday, the EPA published a draft rule to effectively gut federal coal ash regulations. Coal ash is the toxic sludge that power companies have dumped in unlined pits for decades, it's leaking and contaminating water across the country. earthjustice.org/press/2026/e...
oh look at that. MISO got #NERC to revise its dire forecast and actually factor in MISO’s interconnection queue fast lane. The result is a significant boost of MISO's reliability rating. Now if only that fast lane included more of the clean energy projects waiting years to connect.
North American Electric Reliability Corporation #NERC’s latest Long-Term Reliability Assessment grossly overstates resource reliability risks, ignoring a number of key factors. NERC's independence and assessments are critical to grid planning so this is a shock gridstrategiesllc.com/review-of-ne...
It's a good year to be a polluting coal power plant owner, not so good for people who like to breathe. The latest: Trump’s EPA asks the court to strike down the national safeguard for emissions of soot. earthjustice.org/press/2025/t...
Is there any health and environmental protection that the Trump Administration won't delay/defer/gut? Last night they proposed to just let companies continue to dump toxic coal ash into unlined coal ponds KNOWN to be leaching into groundwater at 11 power plants. earthjustice.org/press/2025/e...
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
Should tech companies be burning fossil fuels just to power AI? Should datacenters be allowed to drive up electricity costs for the rest of us? No and no.
What energy emergency? In 2024 America produced more energy than ever -- solar and wind set domestic production records while coal accounted for about 10% of U.S. total energy production. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
Trump's DOE is forcing coal plants to keep operating, based on flimsy projections that many disagree with -- including the grid operator in the Midwest. Burning coal just for fun is going to be costly and Consumers Energy customers are going to get the bill.
Laughing because they all agree there is not a risk!
Update from FERC's technical conference on resource adequacy: People were literally laughing at NERC’s claim in the 2025 Summer Assessment that the Midwest is in danger of a shortage of electricity. LOLz at 1:07:40
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Chart of range of estimated deaths from coal pollution: From 1999 to 2020, research in the journal Science shows deaths from coal pollution declined by 97% among Medicare recipients (mostly people over 65). The death toll has steadily declined thanks to environmental rules and coal’s shrinking role in U.S. power.
From 1999 to 2020, research shows deaths from coal pollution declined by 97% thanks to environmental rules and coal’s shrinking role in U.S. power. The @apnews.com calculated the deadly cost of EPA rule rollbacks: apnews.com/article/epa-...
25% of U.S. electricity was generated by solar, wind and geothermal in March. Wind generated 50 TWh of electricity -- providing 15% of U.S. electricity. That must be a record. And yet this Administration is trying to halt wind projects and declaring an 'energy emergency.' www.eia.gov/electricity/...
Unplanned outages strike coal and gas power plants in Texas, but don't worry, solar and wind provided more than 50% of electricity in Texas yesterday. And the sun and wind are free.
Who can be opposed to generating cheaper and cleaner electricity? Texas generates more electricity from wind than any other state -- more than a 1/4 of America's wind energy is from Texas.
While crop prices and yields are volatile and at the whims of natural disasters, wind turbines offer a relatively stable source of revenue in Iowa. And now data centers are testing the winds in Iowa. www.vox.com/climate/4079...
Jesus Christ, loving everyone with a universal love, educates us in the permanent recognition of the dignity of every human being, without exception.
Let us ask Our Lady of Guadalupe to protect individuals and families who live in fear or pain due to migration and/or deportation.
Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings!
The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality...
