inspiring citizen action, one by one 
SANDERSVILLE, GA — “The Charlotte Observer reports that Duke Energy notified the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources on Sunday afternoon that one of their coal ash ponds at the Dan River Power Station was spilling coal ash waste and toxin contaminated water into the Dan River. The […]
AKRON — “FirstEnergy Corp. will close its Eastlake and downtown Lake Shore power plants this fall rather than next year as planned. All 165 employees will be offered jobs at other facilities. About 15 to 20 will remain at Eastlake to operate new electronic equipment designed to keep power flows […]
BOWLING GREEN — “Several Bowling Green citizens questioned city council Monday night about electric rate increases and the city’s decision to rely on the Prairie State coal-fired plant for about 50 percent of the city’s power supply. Each provided council with a list of questions and stated their concerns. Some […]
ON THE DAN RIVER, N.C. — “On the riverbank, hundreds of workers at a Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina scrambled to plug a hole in a pipe at the bottom of a 27-acre pond where the toxic ash was stored. Since the leak was first discovered by a […]
CHARLOTTE, NC — “Duke Energy Carolinas says a burst stormwater pipe at the shuttered Dan River Steam Station has spilled an undetermined amount of coal ash into the Dan River. N.C. officials say it is not yet known whether the Sunday spill represents any safety hazard to the public. Duke […]
America has grown a vast and complex regulatory and financial support system for cheap, dirty energy. This isn’t over WASHINGTON, DC — “The underlying crisis behind most environmental tragedies is the part of the story that we rarely hear about. Our attention is shifting away from chemical spill, as it […]
WASHINGTON, DC — “One of the EPA’s alternatives would regulate coal ash as a ‘special’ (but not necessarily hazardous) waste using a classification authorized under Subtitle C of RCRA. The other alternative would use Subtitle D of RCRA and classify the material as a solid, but not hazardous or special, waste. In August 2013, in […]
CHARLESTON, WV — “The chemical spill that left 300,000 West Virginia residents without usable water involved more chemicals than the company responsible had previously reported, officials revealed this week, leading the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to order that company to give a full accounting of the chemicals that had […]
WASHINGTON, DC — “The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginians was just the latest and most high-profile case of coal sullying the nation’s waters. For decades, chemicals and waste from the coal industry have tainted hundreds of waterways and groundwater supplies, spoiling private wells, […]
Last week’s chemical spill is only the latest chemical accident in the Kanawha River Valley CHARLESTON, WV — “The coal-cleansing chemical that spilled from Freedom Industries’ storage tank into the Elk River last Thursday is only the latest insult in what for some has been a lifetime of industrial accidents […]
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Incinerator won’t pollute region’s air• writing personal letters to Mayor Jackson • putting yard signs in our yards •
Cincinnati becomes first major city to offer 100% green electricity to residentsCincinnati voters overwhelmingly supported 100% renewable energy as a priority
Coal plants drop off the mapEach year 819,195,781 pounds of pollution will NOT be dumped into our air and water
FirstEnergy, citing impact of environmental regulations, will retire six coal-fired power plants14,280 citizens sent letters to decision makers supporting the campaign
Another one bites the (coal) dust21,965 citizens sent letters to decision makers supporting the campaign
Eramet praised for $150M proposal58,375 citizens sent letters to decision makers supporting the campaign
Westerville neighbors are celebrating their first amazing victory18,727 citizens sent letters to decision makers supporting the
AK Steel agrees to new pollution controls in Middletown39,922 citizens sent letters to decision makers supporting the campaign