Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back protections that stop coal-fired power plants from dumping toxic wastewater—including arsenic, mercury, selenium, and lead—from coal ash waste landfills into U.S. waterways. In September 2025, Donald Trump’s EPA gave coal plant companies a pass by delaying enforcement of long-overdue wastewater protections from coal … [continued]
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would allow data centers, power plants, and industrial facilities to begin construction on “non-emitting” components before the project has received its necessary air permits. Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin’s EPA has been giving Big Tech and Big Fossil Fuel shortcuts … [continued]
The Groups are Challenging the State’s Abysmal EPA-Approved Regional Haze Plan CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, and Earthjustice lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the agency’s approval of West Virginia’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan has advanced in the United States Court of Appeals for … [continued]
The EPA on Tuesday proposed rescinding a Biden-era ruling to reclassify Utah’s Wasatch Front from “serious” nonattainment of the 2015 ozone standards to mere “moderate” nonattainment, significantly decreasing required pollution reductions. The proposal downplays local emissions, shifting blame to foreign sources instead of reining in local emissions. EPA has issued … [continued]
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration released yet another coal industry handout by proposing to undo the Environmental Protection Agency’s previous disapproval of State Implementation Plans from states failing to meet their Clean Air Act obligations under the federal ozone air quality standard. Previously in 2023 the EPA had … [continued]
The EPA has now decided it will no longer calculate the cost of fossil fuel pollution on human health in the US.
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would once again delay enforcement of regional haze guidelines and give states a three year extension to submit plans to clean up harmful air pollution at national parks and improve public health. Under the regional haze program, states must … [continued]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, in an unprecedented move, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency gave up defending the national, health-based limits on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), also known as soot, that EPA strengthened last year. The EPA’s court filing asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to … [continued]
People who say that voting doesn’t matter are not paying attention. If you think there’s not a big difference between what Republicans do in control of the US government and what Democrats do, again, you’re just not following politics or policy. After fighting solar power and wind power in numerous … [continued]
NREL researchers helped develop resources for program implementers to assess which solar implementation pathways to pursue, including rooftop solar, community solar, solar water heaters, and intergovernmental program partnerships. Illustration by NREL
The courts are increasingly being asked to make decisions the Congress and the Executive refuse to make to protect the citizens of the US.
