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The rule comes just days before a deadline for owners to report on previously unregulated coal ash dumping at power plant sites

As NERC’s 2025 LTRA highlights, reserve margins — the difference between electricity demand and available supply — are tightening across the country.

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.

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.

New program will help New Mexico shift to cleaner and more affordable transportation fuels

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.”

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

Earthjustice and Sierra Club advocated before the Michigan PSC for equitable energy efficiency programs

Earthjustice, representing the Alliance for Affordable Energy in Louisiana and the Union of Concerned Scientists, filed a request to the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) to investigate Meta’s recently revealed financing scheme, which establishes an additional parent company for its data center developer and leaves Meta with only 20% stake in that holding company. Meta did not reveal its intentions through the LPSC regulatory proceedings to create a new parent company for Entergy’s gas plants and incorporated the new company on the same day the LPSC approved Entergy’s application.

Susan Stevens Miller, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “If Meta ends the lease after four years almost none of the costs of the generating station or the associated transmission will have been paid up by Meta at that point.”

On behalf of public interest groups, Earthjustice challenged the Department of Energy’s (DOE) illegal order forcing Washington’s last coal plant to operate past its planned retirement date. The groups’ request for rehearing was filed with DOE in response to the 90-day order issued Dec. 16, just two weeks before TransAlta’s last coal-burning unit was legally required to shut down on Dec. 31.

Meta’s new financing deal for its massive $27 billion data center in Richland Parish, LA, could leave everyday Louisianans paying for three huge new gas plants to power the data center.

The Trump administration is falsely invoking emergency powers to resurrect coal-fired power.

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “EPA never reviewed these demonstrations. If they did, I am confident that they would likely find that each of the plants are ineligible for an extension.”

Mychal Ozaeta, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “These 13 are the most dangerous coal ash ponds in the U.S. because they’re leaking. They’ve been doing so for decades.”

Electricity rates are set to skyrocket, fueled by the Trump administration’s war on cheaper clean energy and push for expensive fossil fuels.