WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. District Circuit Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Sierra Club, overturning the Department of Energy’s“emergency” order overriding the state’s and utility’s decision to close the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant.
A federal court is declaring that the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fired power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year. Energy Secretary Chris Wright had said the 64-year-old J.H.
Consumers Energy's J.H. Campbell plant on Lake Michigan has burned coal for more than a year past its intended retirement date under successive federal orders.
A federal court ruled the Trump administration overstepped its authority when it forced Consumers Energy’s Campbell coal plant to keep running past its planned closure date. But for now, the coal will keep burning.
A federal appeals court struck down a Trump order requiring a coal power plant based in west Michigan stay open. A 40-page ruling from the U.S. District Court of Columbia ruled the federal energy department had overstepped its authority in requiring the J.H.
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down an order from the Trump administration keeping a Michigan coal plant open past its planned retirement. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Energy Department went beyond its authority when it ordered J.H.
The Department of Energy overstepped when it ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Michigan to stay open past its planned retirement date last year, a federal court ruled on Friday. The J.H Campbell plant is one of seven fossil-fueled plants around the country that the Trump administration has …
A federal court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from keeping a decades-old Michigan coal plant open based on an “emergency” order. The 64-year-old coal plant was set to close as part of a transition to cleaner energy in May 2025, triggering an intervention by Energy Secretary Chris Wright…
In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal court on Friday ruled that the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fired power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year.
