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Georgia Hasn’t Had a Consumer Advocate for Electric Ratepayers for 18 Years

A bill to restore the state’s consumer utilities counsel failed to move forward, meaning Georgia will remain one of only a handful of states without a statutory advocate representing ratepayers.

By Ryan Krugman

Power line crews with Georgia Power work at a home in Savannah on Aug. 6, 2024. Credit: Megan Varner/Getty Images
Georgia Power is planning to add four combined-cycle gas turbines at its coal-fired Bowen power plant in Bartow County, Georgia. Credit: Alan Cressler/USGS

Environmental Groups Challenge Air Permit for Natural Gas Expansion at Atlanta Plant

By Ryan Krugman

Utahns and environmentalists gather before Wednesday’s Public Service Commission hearing on PacifiCorp’s 2025 integrated resource plan. Credit: Zack Waterman/Sierra Club

At Rallies in Utah and Wyoming, PacifiCorp Customers Urge the Utility to Pursue Renewables

By Jake Bolster

Sandy Bahr (center), the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon chapter director, speaks during a protest on Thursday over Arizona Power Service’s recent decision to walk back its clean energy goals. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Arizonans Protest State’s Largest Utility Abandoning Clean Energy Commitments

By Wyatt Myskow

The Des Moines River flows through downtown Ottumwa, Iowa. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill

By Anika Jane Beamer

Ben Jealous, pictured in a blue dress shirt and blue blazer, is beside microphones outdoors

After Turmoil and No-Confidence Votes, Sierra Club Terminates Ben Jealous 

By Lee Hedgepeth

Ben Jealous of the Sierra Club speaks in Franklin Park during Day of Action as climate demonstrators protested several banks on March 21, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Layoffs, Votes of No Confidence and a Leader on Leave at One of the Nation’s Oldest Environmental Groups

By Lee Hedgepeth

Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous (center, in white) poses with Dr. Robert Bullard (to his left, in yellow), Pastor Timothy Williams and other members of the Shiloh community in south Alabama. Credit: Courtesy of Living on Earth

A Father of Environmental Justice Rebukes Sierra Club, Ben Jealous Over Treatment of Black Alabamians

By Lee Hedgepeth

People check on a car stuck in a flooded street on June 13, 2024, in Hallandale Beach, Fla., a community that was marked as disadvantaged by the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Environmental Groups Sue the Trump Administration to Restore Web Tools Critical for Gauging Climate and Pollution Impacts

By Georgina Gustin

Workers smooth cement during the construction of the Sixth Street Bridge in Los Angeles on April 26, 2022. Credit: Gary Leonard/Getty Images

EPA Decimates Grant Program Aimed at Measuring and Reducing Construction Material Emissions

By Dan Gearino

A view of the ExxonMobil Baytown refinery in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Federal Appeals Court Upholds $14.25 Million Fine Against Exxon for Pollution in Texas

By Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune

Oil wells and pump jacks sit idle at the California Resources Corporation facility in Huntington Beach. Credit: Citizen of the Planet//Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

As a Major California Oil Producer Eyes Carbon Storage, Thousands of Idle Wells Await Cleanup

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A view of the Golden Pass LNG Terminal construction site on June 7, 2023 in Sabine Pass near the Gulf Coast. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Local Tax Breaks for LNG Plants Don’t Benefit Communities, Report Says

By Dylan Baddour

Volunteers work to remove debris and mud from a flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Oct. 5 in Swannanoa, N.C. Credit: Steve Exum/Getty Images

Grassroots Hurricane Relief Efforts Fight Disinformation, Slow Bureaucracies and More Frequent Catastrophes

By Keerti Gopal

Tiernan Sittenfeld, the League of Conservation Voters Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, advocates to protect waters at a rally outside of the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 3, 2022. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Protect our Waters

Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0

By Georgina Gustin

The sun sets behind the mountains at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, shrouded in smoke from regional wildfires on July 14, 2021. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

With Wyoming’s Regional Haze Plan ‘Partially Rejected,’ Conservationists Await Agency’s Final Proposal

By Jake Bolster

An offshore oil drilling rig is seen in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

US District Court Throws Out Federal Agency’s Assessment Allowing More Drilling for Fossil Fuels in the Gulf of Mexico

By Aman Azhar

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appear on stage together during a campaign event on Tuesday in Philadelphia. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Climate Advocates Rally Behind Walz as Harris’ VP Pick

By Kristoffer Tigue

Sandy Bahr (center), director of Sierra Club's Grand Canyon Chapter, and Carletta Tilousi (right), member of the Havasupai Tribe, deliver a petition to the Arizona State Capitol Executive Tower in Phoenix on June 27. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Tribes and Environmentalists Press Arizona and Federal Officials to Stop Uranium Mining Near the Grand Canyon

By Noel Lyn Smith

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