Five activists were sentenced to fines in Portsmouth District Court on March 12 for dropping a 175 foot banner off of the smokestack of fossil-fuel fired Newington Station. They were originally arrested in August 2024 as part of a series of No Coal No Gas campaign actions aimed at building momentum to shut down all fossil-fuel fired peaker plants in New England.

This year, ISO New England is holding the annual meeting at a hotel where workers, with the support of UNITE HERE Local 26, have called for a boycott due to a long-running labor dispute. As a result, environmental groups that usually participate have refused to attend the meeting, either in person or virtually.

Oil, gas, and biomass are hanging by a thread. you likely have a peaker plant in your area! If we band together with our neighbors to take these dinosaurs out, we can make a just grid transition possible.

New Hampshire - Activists with the No Coal No Gas campaign installed art at four of the dirtiest and least economical power plants in the state this morning. Each of these facilities is owned by Granite Shore Power (GSP) a wholly owned subsidiary of the Connecticut-based private equity firm Atlas Holdings. In the afternoon, the campaign hosted a festival in Pembroke, across the river from GSP’s Merrimack Station - the region’s last coal-fired power plant.

While ending the burning of coal is an important step toward environmental justice, it does not erase the need for repair of the harms that have been caused to the land, water, and people all over New England, but especially in Bow, NH. Our work going forward must include a restorative process of addressing and repairing those ecological and interpersonal harms so we can work toward a just future together.

While we came out that day last October to call for a just transition for the coal plant and the surrounding community, we were swiftly reminded of the power that the state has to repress free speech, and the lengths that it will go to to stop even symbolic representations of the future we want (and need) to create.

We are here today to call for a just transition of Merrimack Station for land and people, so that this place can support life instead of destroy it. A different future is possible and through our action today we hope to show what that might look like.

Prosecutor dismisses “Loitering and Prowling” case of climate activist.

Activists rally in Bow along with a national day of distributed actions to “end the era of fossil fuels” by demanding Granite Shore Power retire the coal plant.

WESTFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - No Coal No Gas Campaign activists blockaded a CSX unit train carrying over 10,000 tons of coal to Merrimack Station in Bow, NH. After the train was safely stopped in accordance with railroad safety procedures, two No Coal No Gas activists locked themselves to the freight rail tracks with a banner that read "Worker, Community, and Planet Health over CSX profits" as allies stood nearby at Forge Pond.