Tag: Trump Administration
Legal fights continue as reroute of Line 5 pipeline begins
More energy news as a group of private equity investors plans to buy the utility that serves Indianapolis and a major Michigan utility says it won’t negotiate with the public on the sale of 13 aging dams.
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Toxic Coal Pollution Spikes to 25-Year High Under Trump
Washington, D.C. — Pollution from coal-fired power plants has reached a quarter-century high under the Trump administration. This massive spike comes as the Trump administration touts rollbacks of bedrock public health safeguards, exemptions for polluting coal plants from emission standards, and handouts to coal plants across the country. Last month, Donald Trump was crowned the “undisputed champion of … [continued]
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Massive Public Lands Giveaway in Alaska
Interior decision opens 2 million acres to industrialization, attempts to fast track Ambler Road Ten Alaska and national groups sued the Interior Department today for unlawfully removing federal protections over public lands in an area stretching from the Yukon River to the Brooks Range. These lands had been protected for … [continued]
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A Deluge Of Solar Power Crushes A Hollow Victory For Coal
Solar power is still coming in hot in Texas, despite a lawsuit aimed at throttling back investment in renewable energy, brought against three leading investment firms by Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Aric Nesbitt includes more state psychiatric hospitals in anti-crime agenda
Michigan needs more psychiatric hospitals to cut down on homelessness and crime, the GOP gubernatorial candidate has proposed, coinciding with a Trump administration push for more institutionalization of the homeless….