Month: April 2025
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.