WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Community Continues To Honor Workers on 17th Anniversary of Kingston Coal Ash Spill * KINGSTON, Tenn. \- Families and allies of cleanup workers are carrying on their legacy for the 17th anniversary of the Kingston Coal Ash Spill, the first anniversary since the creation of a historic marker for the tragedy. Families set up two billboards to honor the more than 220 clean up workers who ha  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Healey Responds to Trump Administration Stop Work Order for Vineyard Wind * Boston Governor Maura Healey released a statement today in response to the U.S. Department of the Interior's issuance of a stop work order for five nearly complete offshore wind projects, including Vineyard Wind. "Energy costs are already too high. It makes absolutely no sense for the Trump Admini  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 [Category: Environment] -- The League of Conservation Voters posted the following news release: * * * LCV, ELM, and NYLCV Statements on Trump Administration Announcement to Halt 5 Offshore Wind Projects In response to the Trump administration ordering to halt five offshore wind projects, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM), and New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV), released the following statements: "This order o  more

LONDON, England, Dec. 23 -- The British Department for Energy Security and Net Zero issued the following news release: * * * Pension boost for mineworkers lands before Christmas * Almost 40,000 former mineworkers across the UK receive first pension increase, with an average uplift of pound sterling100 a week and one-off pound sterling5,500 lump sum * Follows the government's decision to transfer pound sterling2.3 billion to members of the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme * Governm  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 [Category: Environment] -- The Environmental Defense Fund posted the following news release: * * * Trump Administration Announces Unlawful Offshore Wind Halt * (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today the Trump administration announced plans to halt offshore wind lease sales for already-under-construction offshore wind projects. "For nearly a year, the Trump administration has recklessly obstructed the build-out of clean, affordable power for millions of Americans, just as the country'  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 [Category: Political] -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: * * * Trump's Energy Emergency Orders Should Prevent Morgan Stanley's Electricity Exports * WASHINGTON In a formal protest filed today with the U.S. Department of Energy, Public Citizen challenged an application to export electricity by the Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley. Federal law mandates that "no person shall transmit any electric energy from the United States to a foreign country... [if] i  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Dec. 22 -- The University of Wyoming posted the following news: * * * UW SER Advances Coal Refinery Field Demonstration Plant, Unlocking New Markets for Wyoming Coal * Researchers at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources (SER) spent much of the fall semester overseeing the construction of a coal-to-products field demonstration plant at the Wyoming Innovation Center (WyIC) near Gillette. The demonstration plant is a major step forward in creating new and diver  more

BOONE, North Carolina, Dec. 22 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * Virginia DEQ grants air permit for Dominion's Chesterfield gas plant * December 22, 2025 CONTACT Dan Radmacher, Media Specialist, (276) 289-1018, dan@appvoices.org RICHMOND, Va. Today, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality posted the approved air permit, dated Dec. 19, for Dominion's Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center, a 944-megawatt methane gas plant p  more