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Bad River Band and environmental groups weigh next steps

Notice of intent to sue for violations of the Clean Air Act at the gas turbines power plant located at 2875 Stanton Road S., Southaven, MS, that powers xAI’s Colossus II data center.

Al derogar el dictamen de peligro, la EPA rechaza la ley y la ciencia establecidas para beneficiar a los contaminadores

By repealing the endangerment finding, EPA is rejecting settled law and science to benefit polluters

Conservation groups represented by Earthjustice issued a letter to the Bureau of Land Management and to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum providing the required 60-day notice of the groups’ intent to sue federal agencies for violating the Endangered Species Act. The letter alerts agencies that the groups plan to sue to protect threatened polar bears from oil and gas leasing and extraction in the Western Arctic.

Suit challenges the fourth extension of air permit based on an outdated analysis

Petition to ask the Court to reverse LDEQ’s decision and vacate the extension for the PSD Permit. If Formosa Plastics wishes to pursue its project, it must instead apply for a new PSD permit likely requiring it to reduce the Chemical Complex’s emissions to meet the NAAQS.

Interior’s “Call for Nominations” invites companies to choose public lands areas it wants to bid on in a future lease sale

How lawmakers are clearing the way for mining and fossil fuel development across the western U.S. and Alaska.

Order required broken plant to stay online to address unproven emergency

Public interest organizations challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal emergency order extending the life of Unit 1 at Colorado’s Craig Station. The groups include Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund, and Earthjustice on behalf of GreenLatinos, Vote Solar, and Public Citizen.

The ruling allows ConocoPhillips to proceed with its plans for winter exploration program

A federal court ruling allows ConocoPhillips to continue its winter seismic and exploration drilling program in the Western Arctic despite concerns about the harm it would cause to wildlife, sensitive habitats and the subsistence and cultural values of local Alaska Native people and other Arctic residents.

Environmental and consumer advocacy groups filed rehearing requests after Donald Trump’s Department of Energy unlawfully invoked Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act and forced two coal power plants in Indiana to stay online after their planned retirements.

Three coal units in Indiana — Culley 2, Schahfer 17, and Schahfer 18 — were scheduled to retire at the end of 2025 but the U.S. Department of Energy issued two orders requiring the units to continue operating beyond their planned retirement dates. This report details concerns based on both cost and environmental impact.

Thom Cmar, Deputing Managing Attorney, Midwest Regional Office: “The health benefits of fewer incidences of cancer, cardiovascular disease, less exposure to children of harmful levels of lead — those benefits far exceed the costs to the industry.”

Michael Hiatt, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Propping up uneconomic coal plants, propping up the coal industry — while simultaneously taking efforts to stymie wind development, solar development — that’s going to impair grid reliability.”

Earthjustice responds to a call by the National Energy Dominance Council and PJM governors