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Trump administration continues to undermine Colorado’s efforts to turn the page on coal

Mychal Ozaeta, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “These 13 are the most dangerous coal ash ponds in the U.S. because they’re leaking. They’ve been doing so for decades.”

Emergency order will force Craig Unit 1 to remain available beyond December retirement date

This report analyzes the cost of a U.S. Department of Energy mandate that Unit 1 at the Craig coal-burning power plant in Colorado remain available and operate beyond its December 31, 2025, retirement date.

Electricity rates are set to skyrocket, fueled by the Trump administration’s war on cheaper clean energy and push for expensive fossil fuels.

EPA issues rule to allow ongoing release of toxic chemicals into sources of drinking water for more than 30 million Americans

The Trump administration delivers coal for the holidays and higher electricity bills

Public advocacy groups ask the court to end the Trump administration’s sham emergency orders

Public advocacy groups, led by the Sierra Club and Earthjustice, filed an appellate brief with the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to ask the court to set aside the Department of Energy’s unlawful orders for the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan.

After nearly 15 years of planning, the plant had been scheduled to shut down Dec. 31

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “The result is the same, which is that customers are paying for costs that may or may not be prudent for an asset that may or may not be, in its entirety, used and useful.”

Trump’s EPA proposal would allow EPA to grant 11 coal power plants extensions to continue dumping toxic coal ash in unlined ponds until October 17, 2031

Congress and the administration continue attacks on our national public lands

Over 100 groups oppose Chair Westerman’s “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act” (The “SPEED Act”).

The costs of running the unnecessary coal power plant surpassed $80 million in September

Groups oppose H.J. Res. 130/S.J. Res. 89, a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval to rescind the Bureau of Land Management Buffalo Field Office’s 2024 Resource Management Plan Amendment that ended new coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.

Earthjustice files challenge to SPP’s proposal that fails to account for fossil fuels’ poor reliability during extreme weather and undervalues clean energy

Filing follows PUC Just Transition decision that overlooks environmental justice concerns