Environmental Integrity Project

This grant to first-time grantee the Environmental Integrity Project would help build the organization’s capacity to strengthen and to determine how state and national agencies regulate pollution associated with coal-fired power generation. Unlike our other grantees, this organization looks at the entire suite of regulations that impact coal, not just the Clean Air Act. This includes water used for cooling processes, solid waste generated from coal ash, and waste water. Their work often provides the technical and legal underpinning of the work used by advocacy groups, like the Sierra Club and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

This grant would help build the organization’s capacity to determine how state and national agencies regulate pollution associated with coal-fired power generation. Unlike our other grantees, the Project looks at the entire suite of regulations that impact coal, not just the Clean Air Act. This includes water used for cooling processes, solid waste generated from coal ash, and waste water. The Project often provides the technical and legal underpinning of the work used by advocacy groups like the Sierra Club and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. It will be a key player in defending EPA’s Clean Air Act authority, implementing and expanding the new source CO2 rule, and developing rules to regulate carbon from existing plants. It will also play a key role in some regional venues to close coal plants as part of the Beyond Coal Campaign.

The Environmental Integrity Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that advocates for effective enforcement of environmental laws. This general operating support grant will support the organization’s ability to serve as an advocate for fair enforcement of environmental laws and regulations; write and distribute reports and data; and empower communities to participate in the public process regarding important state and federal decisions affecting clean air and water.