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Under the current Trump administration, the EPA has begun to systematically gut protections that would otherwise force the coal industry to clean up its toxic coal ash.

Folks nationwide feel the Trump administration’s EPA is abandoning its responsibility to protect communities, and they are speaking out.

Groups challenge disapproval of state’s widely-supported regional haze plan

The long-planned shutdown of the coal plant in Centralia, Washington, was designed to provide state residents with cleaner air and more affordable, reliable, clean energy

Earthjustice filed a petition for review in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an illegal emergency order issued by the Department of Energy forcing Washington’s last coal plant to continue operating.

Federal agency rammed through expansion, illegally skipped environmental analysis, shut out public

Conservation groups sued the Trump administration over its approval of a major expansion of the Bull Mountains Coal Mine in Montana.

The EPA finalized a repeal of the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, lifesaving regulations that drastically reduce toxic chemical emissions from the nation’s dirtiest power plants.

Advocates warn of more toxic pollution, asthma attacks, and premature deaths, especially in communities living near coal plants.

Christie Hicks, Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Taxpayers will be paying for this twice — in increased costs for electricity for the Department of Defense and the bailouts to keep those crumbling coal power plants running.”

Earthjustice responds to an Executive Order directing the Department of Defense to prioritize coal

The rule comes just days before a deadline for owners to report on previously unregulated coal ash dumping at power plant sites

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.

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

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.

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.”