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Black History Month Energy Leaders Blog Series: Nathaniel Smith Boosts "Energy Equity" in the American South

This blog was written by Amelia Shenstone, former Regional Advocacy Director with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

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Polling Shows Hispanic Voters Support Climate Action

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, SACE will be posting a series of blogs highlighting issues that impact Latino communities throughout the Southeast. This is the third blog in this series.…

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Do You Breathe Air? Why You Should Care About New Ozone Standards

On October 1, 2015, EPA released its updated ozone standards. The new standards require an ozone concentration of 70 parts per billion (ppb), lowered from the previous 75 ppb standard. For more…

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Can we talk? Here’s the conversation African Americans need to have about climate change

This guest post, by Danielle Hilton and Seandra Pope, was originally published on Grist on July 8. You can see the original post here. Last year, the African-American author and commentator Charles…

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Supreme Court Mercury Decision Not a Real Game Changer

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States sent the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury Air Toxics Standard (MATS) rule back to a lower court for review. Justice Scalia…

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2015: The Year of New Public Health Standards for Ozone

With only one month left in the year, the Environmental Protection Agency released its long awaited and updated proposed ground-level ozone standards on November 25, 2014.  EPA updated its ozone standard in…

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Kentucky Group Studies Health Effects of Aging TVA Coal Plant

This guest blog was written by Deborah Payne, MPH, Health Coordinator at the Kentucky Environmental Foundation (KEF). For more detail on KEF's Shawnee Health Impacts Assessment, please register and attend a free webinar…

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New Customizable Coal Ash Reports Highlight the Danger in Our Back Yards

Today, as EPA's deadline to finalize coal ash rules rapidly approaches, SACE unveiled a new tool to help concerned citizens, activists, policymakers, and reporters better understand the potential hazards of toxic coal ash…

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Why Are Latinos Way Ahead of the Climate Change Curve?

This blog, by scientist and Kendall Science Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists Roberto Mera, originally appeared on UCS's The Equation blog on September 12, 2014. In the summer of 2009…

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TVA Board Approves Retirement of Allen Coal Plant in Memphis

Today the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors voted unanimously to retire all three coal-fired units of the Allen Fossil Plant (990 MW) in Memphis and approved replacement with a new…