Coal

Utilities, fossil fuel companies, and aligned groups filed public comments last month supporting a pair of Trump administration proposals to repeal EPA limits on harmful emissions of air pollution and greenhouse gases from power plants.   One of the Trump administration’s proposals would reverse a Biden-era EPA rule that strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS),...

A Department of Energy memorandum identified significant logistical challenges facing the Trump administration’s last-minute order to prevent the closure of the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued the order on May 23, just eight days before the plant was scheduled to shut down on May 31st. Wright’s order...

Kansas City-based Evergy this month signaled plans to delay the retirement of its coal plants, increase planned methane gas generation, and reduce and delay new renewable energy generation, raising questions about its ability to meet its pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2045, and the cost to consumers of the new gas plants.  The shifts...

How FirstEnergy, one of America’s most corrupt utilities, secretly spent millions of dollars as it pursued a multi-billion-dollar federal bailout for its coal and nuclear plants during Donald Trump’s presidency, a bailout Trump promised, but failed to deliver.   Records obtained via subpoena now identify previously unnamed individuals and entities that FirstEnergy admitted in a 2021...