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Maryland General Assembly passes new laws that will lower energy costs, rein in data centers, and help Maryland achieve its clean energy goals

President Trump announces executive orders to prop up coal and open public lands to destructive mining

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “This is part of a larger trend of states and utilities green-lighting new fossil fuel infrastructure to enable trillion-dollar tech companies to expand their energy-intensive data centers — derailing progress toward a clean energy future.”

Comisión Federal Reguladora de Energía permitió, contrario a la ley, la expansión del terminal de gas metano en la Bahía de San Juan en manos de NFEnergía, sin consultar a las comunidades locales y sin la revisión requerida.

FERC unlawfully allowed methane gas company NFEnergía to expand its terminal infrastructure in the San Juan Bay without consulting local communities and without the required review

Shannon Fisk, Director of State Electric Sector Advocacy, Earthjustice: “What they could achieve is at most a temporary lifeline for coal, not a revival of the industry. In an economically competitive market, coal is going to lose.”

Utility consolidation threatens to raise electricity rates and environmental pollution

Susan Stevens Miller, Senior Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Maryland doesn’t have a reliability problem. It has an affordability problem.”

The California Ratepayer Protection Act would end the unfair practice of for-profit utilities charging customers for lobbying and PR campaigns

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “What has been proven over and over again is that the industry can deploy the best science and the best technology, continue to have a very profitable business model, while affording us all of the collective benefits, including economic benefits, of a clean and healthy environment.”

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “I’m thrilled to see that Maryland is stepping up, because we’re going to need the states to hold the line and enforce the federal rule. In a couple of years, those federal regulations may not be on the books.”

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “Utilities have gamed the system at some plants by designing monitoring systems that intentionally miss detecting leakage from a coal ash dump.”

Utility falsely promoted gas as “clean energy” and downplayed environmental harms in customer bill inserts

Shannon Fisk, Director of State Electric Sector Advocacy, Clean Energy Program: “Just coming in with a sledgehammer and destroying it all makes absolutely no sense and will be terrible for the public.”

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This is going to mean increased impacts on local communities that we’ve seen across the country.”

Earthjustice filed a rehearing request with FERC to oppose PJM’s plan to fast-track connection of new gas plants

Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The idea was that the coal ash would be parked there for a little while while it cooled, and then it would be taken to a (permanent) disposal area. It overflowed fences. It overflowed into a ditch with water on it running off the site … it just became…