Oral arguments on September 15 to determine if Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s proposed changes to regional transmission planning under Order 1920 will stand or be improved. On Tuesday, ...

As state senator, Brent Taylor voted for Senate Bill 884 in 2025 to classify fossil gas as a type of clean energy. The law effectively prevents municipalities and local power companies from achieving ...

Jennifer Balkcom currently serves as the State House Representative for District 117 in the North Carolina State Legislature, where she has served since being elected in 2022. She is from Henderson, ...

Justin Pearson currently represents District 86 in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Before he took office in 2023, Pearson co-founded Memphis Community Against Pollution, an environmental ...

EV sales crossed a milestone. The Southeast surpassed 1 million cumulative EV sales in 2026, reaching 1,137,170 as of June 30, with new passenger EV sales up 25% year over year despite federal policy ...

The scale of what’s coming justifies the pause. The South already accounts for 48% of all planned U.S. data centers, and SACE’s five focus states — Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, ...

The ask: An 18-month pause, not a ban, to proactively define rules on transparency, pollution, cost, and risk before the concrete is poured. Now the wave is pushing into the rest of the Southeast, and ...

Fall is back-to-school season for kids and families, but for school leadership it’s always budget season. For most districts, the largest expenditure is employee salaries, followed by operating ...

SACE recognizes several existential risks that come along with AI’s rapid adoption, including the rush to build fossil-fuel-based generation to meet the energy demand of data centers; negative impacts ...

Update August 28: In a joint letter with Georgia Power, the Georgia PSC staff announced on August 26 that it would not refer the contract between OpenAI and Georgia Power for 3.2GW of power for review ...