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BPA plans to join the Markets+ energy market over a larger Western one; the choice would cause a spike in energy bills and reduce access to clean energy for Northwest power customers

Nonprofit groups are suing to force a review of the decision by BPA that would cause energy bills to rise and reduce access to clean energy across a broad region

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at eight power plant sites in North Dakota.

NW Energy Coalition, Idaho Conservation League, Montana Environmental Information Center, Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board, and Sierra Club petition for review of the Bonneville Power Administration’s final Day-Ahead Market Policy and the “Day-Ahead Market Policy Record of Decision.” The Policy and Record of Decision do not comply with the requirements of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, or the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Ava Ibanez Amador, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “There should be a framework where the operators that are benefiting from resources in the Gulf of Mexico should be responsible for the entire life cycle of their profits, and that includes the decommissioning.”

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen issues statement

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

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

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 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.

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

Use this map to understand where coal ash might be stored near you.

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “You have contamination that extends back to the 1800s. These aren’t abstract concerns.”

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…

Seven years after EPA Coal Ash Rule, 96% of coal plants are not planning any treatment of contaminated groundwater

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.