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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - This Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, photo shows an aerial view of the fly ash landfill at Dominion's Chesapeake Energy Center in Chesapeake, Va. Millions of tons of ash stored at the former coal-fired power plant in the city will become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and other coastal risks, according to a report compiled for an environmental group that is seeking to have the ash moved. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

Report: Coal ash stored in Chesapeake vulnerable to risks

By DAVE MAYFIELD - Associated Press

The Costs of "Renewable" Energy Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Big Green biggest loser of 2016

By Stephen Moore

Private solar’s future in Arkansas hinges on review

By KYLE MASSEY - Associated Press

Illustration on the environmental advocate targeting of the energy industries by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

TOM HARRIS: Energy suppliers threatened by environmental advocates

By Tom Harris

President Barack Obama arrives before making a statement after touring Everglades National Park on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2015, in Florida. Obama used the visit to warn of the damage that climate change is already inflicting on the nation's environmental treasures. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Obama admin grants green groups unprecedented power in crafting climate policy: Senate report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama reaches for a pen to sign the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Nonprofit co-ops, the health care law’s public-spirited alternative to mega insurers, are awash in red ink and many have fallen short of sign-up goals, a government audit has found. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama’s climate change policy driven by outside forces: report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg smiles prior to be conferred with the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur by France's Foreign minister Laurent Fabius, at the Quai d'Orsay, in Paris, in this Sept. 16, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

DREW JOHNSON: Sierra Club has become front group for donors’ financial interests

By Drew Johnson

Republican senatorial candidate State Sen. Joni Ernst, makes a statement to the media after her debate with Democratic senatorial candidates Rep. Bruce Braley, at Simpson College Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. (AP Photo/Justin Hayworth)

Sierra Club launches $1M push against Joni Ernst in Iowa Senate race

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

EDITORIAL: Mr. Obama’s lobbyists, another broken promise

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Barack Obama jokes with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and EPA staff members who worked on the power plant emissions standards, in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 2, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Emails show ‘collusion’ between EPA, environmental lobby: watchdog

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Wind turbines stand in a field, Monday, June 2, 2014, in Adair, Iowa. Iowa utility officials say the Obama administration's ambitious plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants is likely to increase costs. Iowa utilities invested heavily in wind power over the past decade and improved the efficiency of existing power plants. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

PHILLIPS: Another free pass for a far left group

By Judson Phillips

In this 2014 photo is the Harding Street power plant Marion County, Ind. The Sierra Club is pushing for Indianapolis' local utility to retire an aging power plant that's left Indiana's capital as the last major Midwestern city with a coal-fired power plant within city limits that isn't being phased out. The Indianapolis' utility company had faced growing pressure to retire will be converted to cleaner-burning natural gas if state regulators endorse a revised plan the company announced Friday. (AP Photo /The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)

Indianapolis utility to convert coal plant to gas

By RICK CALLAHAN - Associated Press

Wind turbines stand in a field, Monday, June 2, 2014, in Adair, Iowa. Iowa utility officials say the Obama administration's ambitious plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants is likely to increase costs. Iowa utilities invested heavily in wind power over the past decade and improved the efficiency of existing power plants. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

PHILLIPS: The Sierra Club war on fiscal sanity

By Judson Phillips

Kansas gives go-ahead again to new coal plant

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Sierra Club sues EPA over Dallas air quality

Associated Press

Indiana panel OKs $670 million IPL plant upgrades

By RICK CALLAHAN - Associated Press

Kansas considers revised permit for coal plant

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Sierra Club calls 3-state area ‘climate disrupter’

Associated Press

Environmental groups slam Pa. smog proposal as lax

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

Federal judge upholds Lake Tahoe regional plan

Associated Press