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Environmental and consumer advocacy groups filed rehearing requests after Donald Trump’s Department of Energy unlawfully invoked Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act and forced two coal power plants in Indiana to stay online after their planned retirements.

Florida and federal agencies have been withholding information to avoid complying with federal environmental law

Three coal units in Indiana — Culley 2, Schahfer 17, and Schahfer 18 — were scheduled to retire at the end of 2025 but the U.S. Department of Energy issued two orders requiring the units to continue operating beyond their planned retirement dates. This report details concerns based on both cost and environmental impact.

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.”

Suit seeks U.S. ban on New Zealand seafood as fishing fleets harm rare Māui and Hector’s dolphins

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.”

Banning clean energy projects undermines fair markets, ratepayer affordability, and state and local efforts to meet state climate and energy mandates

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

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.

Isocycloseram was approved for use on golf courses, lawns, and a host of food crops

Sam Sankar, SVP of Programs, Earthjustice: “The first Trump administration saw oil companies as its “partners.” The second Trump administration treats them as its “customers.””

On behalf of public interest groups, Earthjustice challenged the Department of Energy’s (DOE) illegal order forcing Washington’s last coal plant to operate past its planned retirement date. The groups’ request for rehearing was filed with DOE in response to the 90-day order issued Dec. 16, just two weeks before TransAlta’s last coal-burning unit was legally required to shut down on Dec. 31.

The administration wants to maximize oil and gas drilling in Arctic regions of the U.S. We’re in court to stop them.

Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations

Updated complaint resumes litigation to protect the 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and gas leasing, adding new claims challenging Interior’s October 2025 decision to again open the Coastal Plain to leasing.

Updated complaint restarts paused litigation to protect the 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and gas leasing

Thom Cmar, Deputing Managing Attorney, Midwest Regional Office: “It’ll cost all of us in the long run because it will encourage more expensive, dirty coal plants to continue operating for longer and it will mean more arsenic, mercury and lead in our waterways.”