Several Utilities Donate to Trump Inauguration Committee 

Monopoly utilities NextEra Energy, Sempra, Southern Company, and Washington Gas were among the donors to Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration.  The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc., received large checks from...

/ April 25, 2025
Pile of money

Utility CEOs get raises as companies roll back diversity, environmental pay incentives and rates increase

In 2024, investor-owned utilities paid their chief executive officers a total of over $530 million, according to an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute based on the latest proxy...

/ April 23, 2025
Kehoe bill signing with PSC Chair Hahn, Sen. Cierpiot, Rep. Hurlbert and Sen. O'Laughlin

Kehoe signs law likely to increase utilities’ profits, Missourians’ utility bills

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on his first major energy package earlier this month, a suite of policies likely to increase Missourians' utility bills and corporate utilities' profits, reflecting...

/ April 22, 2025

Southern Company Retreats on Clean Energy Ambition as Emissions Cuts Stall

Southern Company has quietly weakened the key greenhouse gas reduction metric used in its executive compensation program — a move that makes it easier for top executives to receive performance...

/ April 21, 2025

HBO’s ‘The Dark Money Game’ spotlights FirstEnergy’s corruption as Trump revives federal coal plant bailout the utility once lobbied for 

The premiere of HBO’s new documentary “The Dark Money Game” shines a spotlight on FirstEnergy’s bribes-for-bailouts scheme in Ohio just days after President Trump revived a failed push to use...

/ April 16, 2025

Who is Stewards of Texas, the group pushing anti-renewable energy bill SB 819?

A newly-formed 501(c)4 nonprofit is behind efforts to pass a bill that would enact draconian siting requirements for new solar and wind generation, impose additional permit requirements for developers and...

/ April 7, 2025

Proposed Nevada legislation poses risk to Southwest Gas customers

Nevada is considering legislation that would allow the state’s natural gas utilities to use new ways of setting rates that have proven disastrous for customers in other states, allowing utilities...

/ April 4, 2025

Corporate utilities largely silent on Trump layoffs of staff who manage LIHEAP

We asked utilities for comment: many defended LIHEAP broadly; none criticized the Administration or the staffing cuts.

/ April 4, 2025

Ohio’s big utilities fight repeal of scandal-tainted bill riders that cost customers billions of dollars

Ohio’s largest utilities are opposing state legislation that could help rein in scandal-tainted electric bill riders that have cost their customers billions of dollars.  Executives from AEP, AES, Duke Energy,...

/ March 24, 2025

CenterPoint’s deceptive billing practices put customers at risk of disconnection

The utility redirects customer payments for gas service to its for-profit appliance business

/ March 21, 2025