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Earthjustice Senior Counsel Lisa Evans was the sole witness invited by the minority to testify before the Subcommittee on Environment hearing titled “A Decade Later: A Review of Congressional Action, Environmental Protection Agency Rules, and Beneficial Use Opportunities for Coal Ash” on June 26, 2025.

Public interest groups challenge the Department of Energy’s sham order

On June 18, 2025 public interest groups challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal extension of the J.H. Campbell power plant past its planned expiration.

Another deeply-flawed proposal from MISO discriminates against wind and solar

Protest filed with FERC against the Southwest Power Pool’s proposal to fast-track gas power plants

Department of Energy’s abuse of power charges consumers for an emergency that doesn’t exist.

New moves by the Trump administration and its congressional allies threaten to increase air pollution and harm public health.

J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant was supposed to retire in eight days

Rural and midwestern states may have more funds to lose, per person, if NEVI funds are rescinded.

Christine Powell, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “FERC’s role as an independent agency is to protect consumers, and ensure reliable affordable energy. The best way to do that is to let clean energy compete fairly and openly.”

The proposal illegally discriminated against competitive power generation that would bring clean, affordable energy online

Earthjustice joined a legal fight against the Trump administration’s attacks on wind energy.

Decisions pending on other state requests

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Crypto mines exploit all of the distributed impacts in a way that has made it really hard to regulate and hard for communities to understand. I don’t think most communities realize what they’re inviting into their community until it’s too late. With the water consumption, the fire…

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at ten power plant sites in Maryland. All but one of these sites include older ash dumps that industry is only now beginning to quantify and monitor.

Significant quantities of coal ash are stored at three power plant sites in Massachusetts. All of these sites include older coal ash dumps that industry is only now beginning to quantify and monitor.

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at five power plant sites in Arizona.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 19 coal-burning power plant sites in Texas.