Southwest Gas incessant in requesting back-to-back rate increases

Southwest Gas, one of the country’s largest gas utilities, requested an 11.88% – $125.6 million – rate increase with the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) earlier this year. If approved, the...

/ October 22, 2024

Ohio Oil and Gas Association opposes Issue 1: Members have benefited from one-party rule in Columbus  

The Ohio Oil and Gas Association has come out in opposition to Issue 1, the ballot initiative that aims to depoliticize how voting districts are drawn in Ohio and end...

/ October 21, 2024
Mike Kehoe holding an Ameren check

Missouri utilities pump more than $400,000 into Kehoe gubernatorial bid

Led by Ameren, utilities have funneled nearly $600,000 to the Republican throughout his political career.

/ October 16, 2024
Belews Creek Steam Station

Duke Energy funded climate science-denying John Locke Foundation

Duke Energy contributed $25,000 to the John Locke Foundation (JLF), a leading voice of climate science denial and renewable energy rejectionism in North Carolina. The contribution, which occurred in 2021...

/ October 15, 2024

Subpoenaed records detail FirstEnergy’s secret political spending to influence then-President Donald Trump 

How FirstEnergy, one of America’s most corrupt utilities, secretly spent millions of dollars as it pursued a multi-billion-dollar federal bailout for its coal and nuclear plants during Donald Trump’s presidency,...

/ October 9, 2024

WEC Energy’s We Energies Foundation contributed $2 million to Republican National Convention

The utility previously declined to reveal its contribution

/ September 18, 2024

Donald Trump and J.D. Vance PACs raked in millions from gas industry megadonors Karen Buchwald Wright and Thomas Rastin 

Ariel Corporation chairman and her spouse have also opposed new solar farms in Ohio Gas industry megadonor couple Karen Buchwald Wright and Thomas Rastin together contributed at least $2.4 million...

/ August 14, 2024

Missouri utility regulator urged Governor Parson to prevent detailed disconnection reporting

Commissioner Kayla Hahn, Chair of the Missouri PSC, asked her former boss, Governor Mike Parson, to deny a proposed rule four years in the making because it required utilities to...

/ August 13, 2024

As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs’ Pay Spiked Last Year

While many Americans saw their energy bills go up substantially in the past year, investor-owned electric and gas utilities and the country’s largest publicly owned utility paid their CEOs over...

/ July 18, 2024