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A group of Republican governors are pushing back against clean energy mandates — and Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has joined the effort.

A group of states co-led by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its recent carbon rule.

The Hoosier utility company this week filed a request with the IURC to transition its two remaining coal-burning units.

A state Senate bill aims to ensure Indiana doesn’t transition away from coal “too quickly” and threaten reliability.

The waste leftover from burning coal can have toxic heavy metals that can get into the groundwater and pollute local drinking water sources.

Though the EPA proposed an annual limit on soot, it didn’t propose a new daily standard — despite a scientific advisory committee's recommendations to do so.

The highest recent fuel adjustment was by Duke Energy — where the average customer paid an extra $22 a month from July through September.

The Obama administration put rules in place in 2015 to prevent coal ash from contaminating groundwater. But any ponds that were closed before then were exempt.

The Petersburg plant currently employs about 300 people and is one of the largest taxpayers in Pike County. It also emits the third most greenhouse gases of any facility in the state.

Since the Sierra Club released its first utility scorecard last year, more than half of electric utilities in the U.S. made improvements — but 35 percent of them got even lower scores than the previous report.