BOONE, North Carolina, April 16 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * American Rivers names Gauley River to America's Most Endangered Rivers(r) of 2025, due to toxic coal mining pollution April 16, 2025 CONTACT Hawk Hammer, National Communications and Media Director, Hhammer@americanrivers.org Andrew Young, staff attorney for the Allegheny Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA), ayoung@abralliance.org Dan Radmacher, Media Specialist, Appalachia  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 16, 2025: * * * Navigating the Climate and Energy Implications of a Northeast Pipeline By Cy McGeady and Bridgette Schafer The nation's northeastern states--New York alongside New England's Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont--face mounting challenges to their energy systems in terms of high prices and increasing reliability risks. These   more

WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Lawsuit Seeks Trump's Master Plans for Slashing Environmental Protections WASHINGTON-- The Center for Biological Diversity sued four Cabinet-level agencies today for failing to release information on the Trump administration's "action plans" to boost the oil industry and other fossil fuel producers by rolling back and eliminating environmental safeguards. Today's lawsuit   more

WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Sierra Club Celebrates Legal Agreement with Prairie State Energy Campus MARISSA, IL \- Following litigation to hold Prairie State Generating Company accountable for operating its coal-burning power plant without enforceable air permits, the Sierra Club has agreed to resolve the case after achieving its main goals in filing the suit. "As we've stated from the beginning, no coal plant, esp  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 [Category: Environment] -- The League of Conservation Voters posted the following news release: * * * Trump Administration's Rollback of Protections Against Air Pollution from Power Plants Will Harm Communities Washington, D.C. -- In response to the Trump administration's announcement yesterday to rollback standards for mercury and other air toxics pollution from 68 coal-fired power plants, the League of Conservation Voters issued the following statement from former EPA s  more