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Largest Utah Coal Plant Goes Quiet as Los Angeles Goes Coal-Free

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Utah’s largest coal-fired power plant — the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), located in the Great Basin region of western Utah and primarily serving southern California — is no longer operating, after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power quietly pulled the plug just before Thanksgiving. The shutdown happened with … [continued]

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Trump EPA Opens Door for More Haze Pollution in Texas, Benefiting Wealthy Utilities

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Texas — Today the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved two do-nothing haze pollution plans from the Texas government, ignoring public pleas for EPA to reduce the harmful haze pollution that clouds Texas skies year round and makes people sick. Wealthy coal plant owners — like NRG and Luminant — now have permission … [continued]

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Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump EPA Final Rule That Delays Methane Pollution Protections from Oil and Gas Industry

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Unlawful Delay Ignores Health Risks, Energy Waste, Widespread Opposition Contact Sierra Club — Shannon Van Hoesen, shannon.vanhoesen@sierraclub.org Environmental Defense Fund — Sharyn Stein, sstein@edf.org Clean Air Task Force — Samantha Sadowski, ssadowski@catf.us Center for Biological Diversity — Jason Rylander, jrylander@biologicaldiversity.org Earthjustice — Alexandria Trimble, atrimble@earthjustice.org Environmental Law & Policy Center … [continued]

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