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How lawmakers are clearing the way for mining and fossil fuel development across the western U.S. and Alaska.

Order required broken plant to stay online to address unproven emergency

Public interest organizations challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal emergency order extending the life of Unit 1 at Colorado’s Craig Station. The groups include Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund, and Earthjustice on behalf of GreenLatinos, Vote Solar, and Public Citizen.

The ruling allows ConocoPhillips to proceed with its plans for winter exploration program

A federal court ruling allows ConocoPhillips to continue its winter seismic and exploration drilling program in the Western Arctic despite concerns about the harm it would cause to wildlife, sensitive habitats and the subsistence and cultural values of local Alaska Native people and other Arctic residents.

Un centro de detención para migrantes y un aire irrespirable en pleno corazón de la industria azucarera de la Florida

Business is up, pollution is down, but Trump still wants to stop congestion pricing. Earthjustice is heading to court to keep it.

The National Parks Conservation Association, Montana Environmental Information Center and Sierra Club filed a challenge to EPA’s approval of Montana’s “regional haze” plan.

Modern technologies provide faster and cheaper ways to power rising energy demand.

The U.S. Forest Service releases a final environmental impact statement moving forward with the largest old-growth logging project on the Tongass in years

States and nonprofit groups win lawsuit protecting $5 billion federal EV charging program

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