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Phillips Baker, Jr., retires from Hecla Mining Company leaving unreclaimed mining disasters behind

A major victory for communities living near coal ash plants, the rule closes a loophole that left over half of coal ash exempt from federal clean-up requirements.

Recent Supreme Court decision exposes federal protections to tidal wave of industry litigation attacking long-standing public protections

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “They have a motivation to not find as much contamination.”

By law, before government regulations are adopted or changed, agencies must ask the public — you — to weigh in.

Thom Cmar, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The two rules are necessary and complementary to each other and point in the same direction, which is that they are contaminating groundwater, they’re contaminating the surface waters that run alongside them. Both standards work in complementary ways to set a high bar that points toward cleanup and environmental…

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

The EPA has designated PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under CERCLA, which requires polluters to fund cleanup of contaminated sites

State Water Commission failed to restore stream flows after closure of last sugar plantation

Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This moves EPA forward.”

The SCOTUS ruling could delay challenges to harmful regulations

Locals aren’t letting dirty industry expand in the Gulf without a fight.

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “It may result in very few properties being cleaned up if that [natural level of arsenic] standard is set artificially high.”

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Climate-killing crypto miner Greenidge Generation became a national story and test case for how states should handle the exploitative and extractive crypto mining industry

Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Those rules are a regulatory Rube Goldberg machine, with numerous loopholes and many different tracks allowing companies to minimize the bonds they have to post.”

746 coal ash units in 43 states and Puerto Rico have reported information in compliance with federal coal ash safeguards since 2015. Here’s what the data said.

What you need to know about Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and how the Court’s ruling jeopardizes the government’s ability to regulate