PORT SHELDON TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 20, 2026) – The ongoing battle over keeping the JH Campbell power plant in Port Sheldon Township open continues.
Following Monday’s decision by the US Department of Energy to issue a fifth 90-day emergency declaration to keep that coal-fired facility open, opponents, led by state Attorney General Dana Nessel, plan to hold a press briefing and rally at the nearby Windsnest Park on Thursday afternoon to call for its immediate closure.
Consumers Energy, which claims that keeping the plant open is costing it over $620,000 daily, had planned to shutter the facility last May, as part of complying with Governor Whitmer’s 2040 clean energy mandate. Nessel and members of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters contend that the energy emergency cited by the White House is “made up,” but state Senate Minority Whip Roger Victory of Hudsonville, in whose district the plant resides, questions what these opponents are paying attention to.
The matter is being heard in a legal challenge that is currently before the US Court of Appeals in Washington, with oral arguments made last Friday. No timetable for a decision has been disclosed.
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