2020 Benchmarking: Progress and Opportunity
The largest electricity producers in the U.S. electricity sector succeeded in contemporaneously cutting climate and air pollution while powering a healthy...
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Benchmarking 2019: Emissions Down, with a Cautionary Tale
With the Trump administration continuing its assault of climate action and clean energy progress in the U.S., it is more important than ever for the highest-pol...
How EPA Admin. Wheeler Cooks the Books for Dirty Power Scam
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has just unveiled what his agency calls the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, which is all about propping up dirty coal-fired...
Benchmarking Report 2018: Clean Energy Continues Apace
It has been another consecutive year of declining climate and air pollution from the electric power sector, as confirmed in the annual Benchmarking Air...
Pruitt Cooks the Books to Hide Clean Power Plan Benefits
In our last post , we covered how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt fiddled with the accounts to inflate the costs of the Clean Power Plan, when in reality the...
Pruitt Cooks the Books to Inflate Clean Power Plan’s Cost
The Trump Administration released its proposal today to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which set the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants –...