Thom Cmar, Deputing Managing Attorney, Midwest Regional Office: “The health benefits of fewer incidences of cancer, cardiovascular disease, less exposure to children of harmful levels of lead — those benefits far exceed the costs to the industry.”
Michael Hiatt, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Propping up uneconomic coal plants, propping up the coal industry — while simultaneously taking efforts to stymie wind development, solar development — that’s going to impair grid reliability.”
Megan Kemp, Colorado Policy Advocate, Rocky Mountain Office: “I am shocked to see such generous tax exemptions being offered to corporations that very well should be made to be pay their way.”
On PFAS, pesticides, food additives, and more — what the MAHA commission said in their report, what the MAHA commission recommends and what the Trump administration is actually doing
Patti Goldman, Attorney, Northwest Office: “When people use pesticides in their fields or on their lawns, they don’t expect to get cancer. Yet this happens, and when it does, state court lawsuits provide the only real path to accountability.”
Michelle Ghafar, Attorney, California Regional Office: “They didn’t look at any of that new information or change of circumstances and analyze how any of that could change the impact that they identified.”
A photo of the whale caught a researcher’s eye, sparking a scientific odyssey spanning 56 years. Today, amid a push to expand fossil fuel drilling in the Gulf, Rice’s whales face extinction.
Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, Staff Scientist, Fossil Fuels Program: “What this report shows is that the pipeline would put these kids and teachers in harm’s way. There would be a very large cloud of CO2 that would cover the area, the houses, the school very quickly — within like 10 minutes.”
Earthjustice, representing the Alliance for Affordable Energy in Louisiana and the Union of Concerned Scientists, filed a request to the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) to investigate Meta’s recently revealed financing scheme, which establishes an additional parent company for its data center developer and leaves Meta with only 20% stake in that holding company. Meta did not reveal its intentions through the LPSC regulatory proceedings to create a new parent company for Entergy’s gas plants and incorporated the new company on the same day the LPSC approved Entergy’s application.
Susan Stevens Miller, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “If Meta ends the lease after four years almost none of the costs of the generating station or the associated transmission will have been paid up by Meta at that point.”
