Entergy Arkansas demolished by explosion a portion of the defunct Lynch Plant generating station in North Little Rock this afternoon. The remaining units will come down mechanically.
UPDATE: A six-hour power outage in western Little Rock this morning is being linked by police to a woman's attempt to escape a rapist in a power substation, where she was shocked and burned.
The Sierra Club today said new data shows a sharp drop — 30 percent year to year — in operating time at Entergy's two big coal-fired power plants in Arkansas. Is change coming despite the business establishment's fight for coal?
The Sierra Club says it has won from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversal of a lower court ruling that prevented it from attempting to review documents about the operation of Entergy's two coal-fired power plants in Arkansas.
The Sierra Club today released the "2016 Arkansas Clean Air Solution," which it called "a common sense and affordable plan to clean up dangerous air pollution from aging coal plants owned by Entergy Arkansas that outlines a solution to meet federal clean-air safeguards."
Entergy Arkansas has filed a response to a federal Environmental Protection Agency plan to reduce haze in Arkansas. Rather than install expensive scrubbers to reduce air pollution at four units of two power plants, it proposes instead to shut down the two-unit White Bluff power plant — the state's biggest and dirtiest coal-burning power plant — by 2028.
Good news from the Arkansas Public Service Commission: It will allow the Sierra Club to intervene in a pending Entergy rate case. Among others, both Entergy and the Arkansas attorney general's office, now more of an advocate for business interests than ratepayers, had objected.
Talk Business reports that Arkansas Public Service Commission staff have recommends denial of a request by the Sierra Club of Arkansas to intervene in Entergy Arkansas's request to increase rates on electricity consumers for the purpose of making improvements to its infrastructure.
The Sierra Club of Arkansas has said that Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is attempting to stop the environmental group from participating in a case before the Arkansas Public Service Commission concerning Entergy Arkansas's proposed rate increase on electric bills in the state.
Ernest Dumas this week uncovers another major giveaway to corporate Arkansas at the expense of average citizens in the form of sweetheart legislation for utility companies that will favor corporations over residential customers.