Trump EPA Clean Power Plan Replacement Meets Resistance
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed repealing the Clean Power Plan, the nation's first limits on the nearly two billion tons of climate-changing ca...
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Wheeler’s “Dirty Power Plan” Is Wrong for the Midwest
EPA head Andrew Wheeler proposed last week a long-rumored rule replacing—and thoroughly gutting—the Clean Power Plan, the Obama EPA’s landmark climate ini...
Gutting Efficiency Would Be a Step Backward for Iowa
A regressive bill (Senate File 2311) sent to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk would devastate the successful—and popular—utility-run efficiency programs in th...
Is There a "War of Attrition" on Electricity Fixed Charges?
Findings from a 2017 analysis of fixed charge proposals by investor-owned utilities Every year since 2015, at about this time, we’ve taken a look back at the...
A Year in Review: Ohio at a Clean Energy Crossroads
Part of NRDC's Year-End Series Reviewing 2017 Energy & Climate Developments This month marks the one-year anniversary of an event in Ohio that turned the...
Ohio Must Push Forward Despite EPA’s Clean Power Plan Repeal
Ohio is ground zero for a transition that has been underway in the electric sector for years—an unstoppable shift from a high-pollution, fossil-fueled past to...