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    Costs of White House Bailout of Coal and Nukes: 27,000 Early Deaths, $263 Billion

    Costs of White House Bailout of Coal and Nukes: 27,000 Early Deaths, $263 Billion

    By Grant Smith and Bill Walker The Trump administration’s scheme to make utility customers subsidize dirty, dangerous and aging coal and nuclear power plants would result in 27,000 premature deaths and a net cost of $263 billion by 2045, according to projections by independent researchers. Another analysis estimates that the coal bailout alone would cause […]

    Picking Losers: Why Coal and Nuclear Interests Are Desperate for a Ratepayer Bailout

    Picking Losers: Why Coal and Nuclear Interests Are Desperate for a Ratepayer Bailout

    Without Energy Sec. Rick Perry’s scheme to make utility customers buy more expensive electricity from aging, dirty and dangerous coal and nuclear plants, utilities plan to close 75 coal and nuclear units in the next three years, according to federal data compiled by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). A new EWG report, Picking Losers, analyzes […]

    Kids Sue Trump Over Climate Rollbacks and Reliance on ‘Junk Science’

    Kids Sue Trump Over Climate Rollbacks and Reliance on ‘Junk Science’

    Two Philadelphia-area children are suing President Donald Trump and two of his climate skeptic cabinet members, Energy Sec. Rick Perry and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, to try to stop them from rolling back existing environmental protections including the Clean Power Plan. The plaintiffs, ages 7 and 11, are backed by the […]

    ‘Blocking the Sun’: New Report Documents Efforts to Undermine Rooftop Solar

    ‘Blocking the Sun’: New Report Documents Efforts to Undermine Rooftop Solar

    While nearly 9 in 10 Americans support the development of more solar energy, electric utilities and fossil fuel-backed special interests are trying to hold off the inevitable renewable-energy future by promoting policies that would make rooftop solar harder to obtain. A new report released Thursday by Environment America Research & Policy Center documents 20 entities, […]

    Rick Perry Tells Africa to Drill, Frack and Dig Coal

    Rick Perry Tells Africa to Drill, Frack and Dig Coal

    By Andy Rowell Last week, one of the most senior officials in the Trump administration, Energy Sec. Rick Perry travelled to South Africa to represent the U.S. at the Africa Oil Week. During his time at the Oil Week conference in the coastal city of Cape Town, Perry delivered the keynote address on global energy […]

    7 Reasons Why Jeff Flake Is Awful on Climate Change and Energy Justice

    7 Reasons Why Jeff Flake Is Awful on Climate Change and Energy Justice

    This week, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) made national headlines by dramatically announcing his retirement on the U.S. Senate floor. Flake focused his speech on the erratic behavior of President Donald Trump and the nationalistic, anti-immigration turn taken by some Republican Party politicians in recent years. “I have decided that I will be better able […]