Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Every day is urgent. The incentives for mining are getting so much higher. Between the price of bitcoin and extreme weather, the combination is a danger to our grid and a danger to externalizing costs on other ratepayers and on the environment.”

A new “model” bill carves out special protections for crypto miners that can threaten the grid and raise electricity rates.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration raises concerns about energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining operations, will seek comments on reporting requirements.

Hillary Aidun, Attorney, Northeast Office: “As the appellate court made clear, people who live near polluting power plants have every right to challenge the decisions that impact their health, safety, and quality of life. We look forward to proving that cryptocurrency miners can’t get a free pass to pollute, and the Public Service Commission can’t…

Thom Cmar, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The EIA collects this type information from every energy user in the U.S., so there is no question that they have the authority to collect this information. It’s just a question of whether this industry is willing to cooperate by making this information publicly available to the extent it…

Thom Cmar, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The EIA clearly has authority to collect this type of information from crypto miners, as it does from many other industries. The reporting burdens here are minimal, and this is information that the public has the right to know.”

Mandy DeRoche, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This is nonpartisan data that’s collected from the miners themselves that no one else has. Understanding this data is the first step to understanding what we can do next.”

The explosive growth of cryptocurrency mining in the U.S. is largely unregulated

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The rewards for their behavior are so lucrative and unfair. It’s like we’re bending over backwards to give money to the [crypto] miner for putting the strain on the grid and the system in the first place.”

Massive unauthorized coal ash ‘mountain,’ growing for years; PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) granted cryptomining polluter Scrubgrass a 4-year leash: toxic coal ash waste allowed to persist

Plans to retire plant were scrapped and an energy-intensive cryptominer moved in

Letter to Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) regarding the Merom coal plant in Sullivan County from Earthjustice, Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, Sierra Club, and Hoosier Environmental Council. The plant has repeatedly violated legal limits on dangerous pollutants, including ammonia, lead, barium, and chromium.

The growth of cryptomining threatens to keep polluting coal-fired power plants active, strain the grid, and raise electricity rates for Hoosiers.

The plant’s air permit application was denied after community members fought back, with help from Earthjustice.

The ruling finds that Greenidge Generation’s crypto mining pollution operations are inconsistent with and will interfere with the greenhouse gas emissions limits of New York’s Climate Law (the CLCPA), as the DEC found in June 2022

Earthjustice represents public interest groups in Kentucky

The rapid growth of cryptomining threatens to strain Texas’s grid and raise electricity rates for Texans.

Cryptocurrency companies are burning waste coal, shredded tires, and fracked gas.