Month: October 2024

Issue 1 opponent Ohio Works’ funders include utility and gas industry-backed groups

Major funders of Issue 1 opponent Ohio Works include the American Jobs and Growth Fund, a dark-money organization with financial ties to the utility and methane gas industries, and the...

/ October 25, 2024

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