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EPA Administrator Wheeler prepares to gut Clean Power Plan, increasing pollution and harming health
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Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is reportedly planning to all but abolish one of America’s most important climate protections: the Clean Power Plan, our only nation-wide limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Though Wheeler might claim that he is offering a Clean Power Plan “replacement,” his reported plan would forfeit the tremendous benefits […]
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How Environmental Impact Bonds Can Help Louisiana Restore its Coast Better, Faster, and for Less Money
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How Environmental Impact Bonds Can Help Louisiana Restore its Coast Better, Faster, and for Less Money
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Louisiana has a $50+ billion Coastal Master Plan to protect and restore its coast, and a number of projects are underway or completed, thanks to the dedication of billions of dollars of penalties that followed the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Over all, the state has currently identified $9 billion to $12 billion of the funds needed to fully implement the plan, which is a great start, but far short of the funding need over time. That sets a clear goal ...
Read The Full StoryThe post How Environmental Impact Bonds Can Help Louisiana Restore its Coast Better, Faster, and for Less Money appeared first on Restore the Mississippi River Delta.
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How Environmental Impact Bonds Can Help Louisiana Restore its Coast Better, Faster, and for Less Money
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Louisiana has a $50+ billion Coastal Master Plan to protect and restore its coast, and a number of projects are underway or completed, thanks to the dedication of billions of dollars of penalties that followed the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Over all, the state has currently identified $9 billion to $12 billion of the funds needed to fully implement the plan, which is a great start, but far short of the funding need over time. That sets a clear goal ...
Read The Full StoryThe post How Environmental Impact Bonds Can Help Louisiana Restore its Coast Better, Faster, and for Less Money appeared first on Restore the Mississippi River Delta.
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How water managers can address surface water depletions – California’s “sixth deadly sin”
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EDF experts make recommendations for California groundwater managers as they seek to avoid surface water depletions.
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How water managers can address surface water depletions – California's "sixth deadly sin"
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EDF experts make recommendations for California groundwater managers as they seek to avoid surface water depletions.
Maurice Hall
How water managers can address surface water depletions – California's "sixth deadly sin"
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EDF experts make recommendations for California groundwater managers as they seek to avoid surface water depletions.
Maurice Hall
EDF Climate & Energy @EDFEnergyEX
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Why should a profitable company need government bailouts? New @firstenergycorp newsletter from @dickmunson:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Why should a profitable company need additional bailouts from state and federal governments?
Wednesday August 15, 2018
The Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have repeatedly requested documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to inform the public and elected officials on this expensive proposal, but requests have been continually ignored and delayed.
So, we’re taking the Trump administration to court. You can read more about the lawsuit here. Still fighting at the Ohio Supreme Court Back in March, EDF and our allies at the Ohio Environmental Council and Environmental Law and Policy Center appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court about FirstEnergy’s $600M bailout, which the utility giant received from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) in late 2016.
The PUCO’s order talked a lot about modernizing the grid, but it essentially gave FirstEnergy a blank check. The money was intended to help improve the credit ratings of the now-bankrupt FirstEnergy Solutions and its parent company, FirstEnergy Corp – i.e., to repair the damage to FirstEnergy’s balance sheet from investing in money-losing coal and nuclear plants.
Ohio rules are so biased toward the utilities that even if the Supreme Court rules the PUCO action to be illegal, FirstEnergy gets to keep all the money it’s already collected – some $200 million, and growing by the second.
In America’s free-enterprise system, shouldn’t the company – rather than Joe and Betty Buckeye – pay for the utility’s bad business decisions? --> FirstEnergy to OVEC partners: Don’t look at me Along with other big utilities like Duke and AEP, FirstEnergy has jointly owned and operated the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) power plants, built in the 1950s to power uranium enrichment facilities.
The utilities have been trying to get Ohio customers to bail out these relics, even though Ohioans already paid for the old, inefficient coal plants back when the state deregulated its electricity market.
But now FirstEnergy is basically saying, “Not our problem anymore” and using its bankruptcy to walk away from the whole mess. As if seeking a bailout from the state and the federal government were not enough, FirstEnergy wants the other owners of the OVEC plants to bear its share of the losses.
Funny how FirstEnergy never seems to accept responsibility. “Quite good” earnings FirstEnergy last week announced its second-quarter 2018 earnings. Largely because of the PUCO’s bailout and the bankruptcy judge’s concessions, the “initial headline numbers were quite good.”
Another key factor is FirstEnergy’s admission that it cannot compete in the electricity-generation business, so it has become a distribution-only utility that enjoys the security of guaranteed profits.
Such factors, however, raise an obvious question – why should a profitable company need additional bailouts from state and federal governments?
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When it’s this hot outside, you might want to crank up the AC and forget all about the company that powers it. But we won’t be forgetting about FirstEnergy, or its efforts to saddle Americans with unnecessary bailouts, any time soon.
For past newsletters and other updates, you can always visit our FirstEnergy landing page.
The Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have repeatedly requested documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to inform the public and elected officials on this expensive proposal, but requests have been continually ignored and delayed.
So, we’re taking the Trump administration to court. You can read more about the lawsuit here. Still fighting at the Ohio Supreme Court Back in March, EDF and our allies at the Ohio Environmental Council and Environmental Law and Policy Center appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court about FirstEnergy’s $600M bailout, which the utility giant received from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) in late 2016.
The PUCO’s order talked a lot about modernizing the grid, but it essentially gave FirstEnergy a blank check. The money was intended to help improve the credit ratings of the now-bankrupt FirstEnergy Solutions and its parent company, FirstEnergy Corp – i.e., to repair the damage to FirstEnergy’s balance sheet from investing in money-losing coal and nuclear plants.
Ohio rules are so biased toward the utilities that even if the Supreme Court rules the PUCO action to be illegal, FirstEnergy gets to keep all the money it’s already collected – some $200 million, and growing by the second.
In America’s free-enterprise system, shouldn’t the company – rather than Joe and Betty Buckeye – pay for the utility’s bad business decisions? --> FirstEnergy to OVEC partners: Don’t look at me Along with other big utilities like Duke and AEP, FirstEnergy has jointly owned and operated the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) power plants, built in the 1950s to power uranium enrichment facilities.
The utilities have been trying to get Ohio customers to bail out these relics, even though Ohioans already paid for the old, inefficient coal plants back when the state deregulated its electricity market.
But now FirstEnergy is basically saying, “Not our problem anymore” and using its bankruptcy to walk away from the whole mess. As if seeking a bailout from the state and the federal government were not enough, FirstEnergy wants the other owners of the OVEC plants to bear its share of the losses.
Funny how FirstEnergy never seems to accept responsibility. “Quite good” earnings FirstEnergy last week announced its second-quarter 2018 earnings. Largely because of the PUCO’s bailout and the bankruptcy judge’s concessions, the “initial headline numbers were quite good.”
Another key factor is FirstEnergy’s admission that it cannot compete in the electricity-generation business, so it has become a distribution-only utility that enjoys the security of guaranteed profits.
Such factors, however, raise an obvious question – why should a profitable company need additional bailouts from state and federal governments?
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This EPA has a blatant double standard when it comes to transparency on new chemicals under TSCA
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This EPA has a blatant double standard when it comes to transparency on new chemicals under TSCA
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