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In the News: New York Public News Network July 30, 2026

Upstate NY crypto mine seeks to become data center

Lisa Perfetto, Attorney, Northeast Office: “It's the same old company with a new name. They're now just attempting to rebrand as an AI data center, but that just has the same potential to cause harm, to further increase harmful emissions.”
Press Release: Victory June 5, 2026

NYS Legislature Passes Data Center Moratorium

New York is one step closer to becoming first state in the nation to hit pause on building new AI data centers
Press Release: Victory May 28, 2026

Appeals Court Delivers Blow to North Tonawanda Crypto Operation, Reinforces New York’s Climate Law

Today's ruling in the Digihost/Fortistar appeal makes clear that state agencies must comply with the climate law's mandates and remain accountable to impacted communities, even after the State has weakened…
document May 28, 2026

NY Supreme Court Appellate Division Fortistar Decision

The New York State Appellate Division, Third Department ruled that New York’s Public Service Commission must examine the emissions impacts of the 2022 sale of the Fortistar fracked gas plant…
Press Release November 10, 2025

Governor Hochul Abandons NY Climate Law and Communities in Back-Room Deal with Climate-Killing Cryptominer

The settlement gives Greenidge Generation a five-year free pass to continue polluting communities near Seneca Lake, in clear violation of the state climate law
Empire State Building and Manhattan skyline, New York City. Buildings are the city’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. (Matteo Colombo / Getty Images)
feature October 22, 2025

Northeast Regional Report Fall 2025

In the Northeast, our work is helping to keep us moving forward in the fight for environmental and climate justice, clean air and water, and the right to a healthy…
Several rows of tall, white and grey cryptomining rigs and their cooling systems at MARA Cryptomine in Granbury, Texas. The Wolf Hollow gas plant is in the background, behind the cryptomining rigs.
Press Release September 3, 2025

Granbury Residents Demand Answers from MARA’s Bitcoin Mine As Lawsuit Over Noise Nuisance Continues

Texas state court rejected MARA's dismissal bid, now residents are demanding that the cryptomine turn over documents
document September 2, 2025

Cryptomining — Granbury Texas — Motion to Compel

Citizens Concerned About Wolf Hollow (“Citizen Group”) asks Court to compel document production from MARA Holdings, Inc.
In the News: Inside Climate News May 10, 2025

New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants — and Communities Are Fighting Back

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…
In the News: The Guardian May 4, 2025

How Trump’s love for crypto threatens U.S. residents’ peace: ‘I just want quiet’

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “If there are policies that support increased mining, there’s going to be more pollution and more community impacts.”
In the News: Capital & Main April 30, 2025

Fracking-Powered Crypto Mine in Pennsylvania Shuts Down Without Word to Regulators

Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Diversified must not be allowed to walk away and leave others to clean up its mess.”
In the News: The New Republic March 17, 2025

What It’s Like to Live in a Small Town Polluted by a Cryptomine

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.”
In the News: The Allegheny Front March 13, 2025

Crypto mining company agrees to speed cleanup of its coal ash pile

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…
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection took this photo of the waste coal ash pile at the Scrubgrass Power Plant, in Kennerdell, Venango County.
Press Release: Victory March 7, 2025

Scrubgrass Cryptomining Facility to Expedite Removal of Toxic Coal Ash ‘Mountain’

Unpermitted massive coal ash pile growing for years near the Allegheny River will now be removed by next year, preventing contamination
In the News: CNN March 3, 2025

Keep the lights on or mine Bitcoin? How crypto is starting to suck up clean energy

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “If you use all that cheap, clean hydro(power) for crypto mining, then humans and small businesses can’t use it and then they have to go somewhere else for that energy — and often it is fossil fuel-based.”
Data centers being built in Leesburg, Virginia, next to the Potomac Energy Center, a gas power plant. (Gerville / Getty Images)
From the Experts March 1, 2025

Managing the Growing Energy Demands of Datacenters and Crypto Mining

How states, utilities, and regulators can address digital energy demands to strengthen the grid.
The Greenidge Generating Station on the west shore of Seneca Lake, near Dresden, New York. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
From the Experts February 21, 2025

How much do we subsidize cryptocurrency mining’s electricity use? No one knows.

Crypto mines have raised electricity rates for households while receiving big discounts and subsidies.
The Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Virginia, on May 9, 2024. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
From the Experts February 4, 2025

New Report Examines Electricity Contracts for Data Centers and other Mega-load or Large-load Facilities

How electricity tariffs can protect households and small businesses from data centers and crypto mines’ enormous energy demands