Last week, I attended the annual meeting of Southern Company shareholders along with several colleagues from across the company's footprint in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. (Thanks to Southern Alliance for Clean Energy for allowing me to attend as a proxy for the shares owned by the...
Clean Air Journal
SCOTUS Denies Appeal Over Embattled MATS Rule
On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari in Michigan v. EPA. This means that SCOTUS rejected Michigan’s and 20 other states, including Alabama, appeal to block the mercury...
Study Finds Air Pollution’s Damage to Lungs, Heart and Brain Underestimated
"Air pollution has emerged as a significant contributor to global stroke burden, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, and therefore reducing exposure to air pollution should be one...
Don’t Let U.S. Congress Gut the Clean Air Act!
In March, Representative Pete Olson from Texas introduced H.R. 4775, the “Ozone Standards Implementation Act.” As is often the case, the devil is in the details of this rather innocuous-sounding...
Here Comes the Sun: Project Sunroof Shows Your Potential
When you think of Google, you probably think of searching the internet for those random questions that pop into your head throughout the day. Or maybe email, chat, mapping directions, document...
Tell AG Luther Strange to Stop Wasting Taxpayer Money Opposing MATS
On April 15, 2016, EPA issued its long awaited final cost consideration for the embattled Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (or MATS) rule. As I mentioned last summer, the Supreme Court of the United...
Why The EPA’s First-Ever Methane Regulations Are A Big Deal
Today the EPA released the final (and first-ever) rule for the oil and gas sector for new, reconstructed and modified sources. Gasp commented on the draft rule and we discussed last summer the EPA...