Michael Lenoff, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “None of the current emergency orders for coal plants in any state demonstrate any evidence that continued operation is imminently needed, and the DOE should stop issuing orders requiring their operation. If not, we will continue to challenge those orders in court.”
Christina Reichert, Attorney, Florida Office: “In Virginia, hyperscale data centers have assaulted surrounding communities with noise pollution, water shortages, brownouts and blackouts, and skyrocketing bills.”
Colin O'Brien, Attorney, California Regional Office: “It appears the developers want to build something much bigger and more polluting than anything they previously revealed, either in court or to the West Oakland community. Any plan to put coal in our communities must be fully vetted and subject to robust requirements…
This is our last chance to speak directly to EPA and urge them to drop their repeal and acknowledge that climate pollution from power plants endangers our health and welfare.
Lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) challenging USDA's efforts to write solar energy out of the Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP).
Matthew Silverman, Attorney, Northeast Office: “They’re basically taking out a credit card. You don’t have to pay anything for the next year, and then when that teaser period ends, you get slammed with a bunch of charges.”
LDEQ air permit would allow construction of a large ammonia storage system and more than a dozen new bulk storage tanks next to communities already burdened by industrial pollution
After the Louisiana PSC ruled that Meta can continue withholding critical information as it fast-tracks approval of seven additional gas plants to power its AI data center, advocates call on…
Isaac Moriwake, Managing Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: “There’s nothing reliable about relying on last century’s technology as we’re burning up the planet.”
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Up for your votes are all 435 House seats, 33 Senate seats, governors of 36 states, 64 state supreme court seats across 32 states,…
Michael Mayer, Attorney, Northwest Office: “It’s premature to say right now that salmon are going to be this sole cause and effect. We think it’s early, and it’s potentially wrong.”
Andrea Treece, Attorney, Oceans Program: “We should be looking at … ways we can actually conserve and foster more abundant fish populations for everybody instead of just killing off the competing predators in the ocean, which is just going to destabilize the system in the end.”
