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Article: Victory March 14, 2016

Los Activistas Anti-fracking No Pueden Parar, Ni Se Dentendrán

Cediendo a la presión de los activistas, los reguladores de utilidades del estado negaron la petición de un rescate bancario de $100 millones para la planta de carbón de Cayuga.…

Irene Weiser, a councilmember in the town of Caroline, played an active role in the fight against the Cayuga coal plant bailout.
(Michael Forster Rothbart for Earthjustice)

Article: Victory March 14, 2016

Anti-Fracking Activists Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

How activists convinced New York state regulators to invest in a clean energy future instead of sinking $100 million into a fossil fuel bailout.

The Cayuga power plant, in Lansing, NY. The plant has been in operation since the 1950's.
(Photo courtesy of Philip Cohen)

Press Release: Victory February 23, 2016

New York PSC Denies Expensive Cayuga Power Repowering Application

Decision saves ratepayers millions of dollars and sets stage for end of coal-burning

The Dunkirk power plant. Repowering the plant fails to protect consumers while subsidizing the profits of out-of-state energy companies. (Seabamirum / Flickr)

Press Release September 29, 2014

Community Advocates Challenge $150 Million Coal Plant Bailout in Western New York

Expensive bailout would result in a plant three times larger than necessary

document September 26, 2014

Dunkirk Notice of Petition and Verification

This proceeding challenges the June 13, 2014 Order Addressing Repowering Issues and Cost Allocation and Recovery issued by Respondents New York Public Service Commission and the New York State Department…

document September 26, 2014

Dunkirk Repowering Article 78 Memo of Law

By order dated June 13, 2014, the New York Public Service Commission approved a repowering agreement for the Dunkirk coal-burning power plant that requires National Grid ratepayers to subsidize a…

document December 19, 2013