US EditionGroups challenge Trump order keeping ‘old,’ ‘dirty’ Michigan coal plant open
- On May 23, 2025, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright ordered Michigan's J.H. Campbell coal plant to remain open for 90 more days past its planned May 31 closure.
- The order responded to reports from NERC and MISO citing an energy emergency in the Midwest amid rising electricity demand after years of flat consumption.
- The regional grid operator and the Michigan utility regulators have confirmed that the area will have sufficient electricity supply for the summer of 2025, and they had earlier authorized the retirement of the Campbell power plant.
- The plant has a 1,560-MW capacity but faced above-average unplanned outages, and Consumers Energy and MISO disagree on how to recover costs for keeping it running past retirement.
- Public interest groups challenged the DOE order as unlawful and called for rescinding it, arguing no real emergency exists and the order risks higher costs and undermines market processes.
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Inside the US power struggle over coal
Coal power is on life support in the US. It used to carry the grid with cheap electricity, but now plants are closing left and right. There are a lot of potential reasons to let coal continue its journey to the grave. Carbon emissions from coal plants are a major contributor to climate change. And those facilities are also often linked with health problems in nearby communities, as reporter Alex Kaufman explored in a new feature story on Puerto …
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Michigan, environmental groups challenge federal order to keep power plant open
Environmental groups and Michigan’s attorney general have filed separate challenges against a federal order that is keeping a coal-fired power plant open this summer.
Groups challenge Trump order keeping ‘old,’ ‘dirty’ Michigan coal plant open
OTTAWA COUNTY, MI - A Trump administration order requiring an old power plant burning coal on the shores of Lake Michigan to remain open months longer than planned faces a challenge from 10 environmental groups and consumer watchdogs.
Nessel, environmental groups challenge Trump order to keep lakeshore coal plant open
LANSING — State Attorney General Dana Nessel and 10 environmental groups filed separate challenges to the Trump administration’s May order that a Michigan coal-fired power plant stay open rather than be shut down on May 31. In her Wednesday rehearing request to the U.S. Energy Department, Nessel said the order for Consumers... Please login to read all 577 words.
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