Global Investors Warn Utilities to Change Business Strategy and Prepare for Climate Change
Now that countries have signed the Paris Agreement, global investors are warning utility companies that they must now act.
NextEra Energy Shareholder Resolution on Sea Level Rise Advances
Shareholders have proposed a resolution to NextEra Energy, Inc. that would require the corporation to report material risks and costs of sea level rise scenarios projecting forward to 2100.
Utility Funded Consumers for Smart Solar Ballot Approved by Florida Supreme Court
The Florida Supreme Court approved the utility-funded Consumers for Smart Solar ballot for the 2016 election.
Co-founder and CEO of Harpoon Brewery Behind Efforts to Block Solar in Massachusetts
Associated Industries of Massachusetts has stepped up its lobbying efforts targeting the pro-solar policies in the state.
The Koch Brothers ‘Hijacking’ of American Democracy
The Koch Brothers have leveraged their business empire to shape the political system in the mold of their own agendas while simultaneously capturing the Republican Party and along with it,...
Utilities Exert Influence Through Universities to Sway Regulatory and Political Debate
Through the funding of university institutes and faculty, utility interests and their trade association, Edison Electric Institute (EEI), wield significant influence over the education of regulatory staff and production of...
Roy Spencer, Climate Skeptic, wants RICO Investigation of Environmentalists
Roy Spencer has a career filled with outrageous statements.
Clean Power Plan Published – Here Is The Utility Industry’s Strategy To Overturn It
Utility companies including the industry's trade association, Edison Electric Institute, have worked to stop the rules and continue to fund organizations focused on overturning the rules.
Revealed: Public Records Between Senator Seitz and Utility Companies
Internal emails reveal how ALEC, utility industry representatives, and front groups have been working to influence the members of the Ohio Energy Mandates Study Committee.
The repeated effort by Ohio ALEC members to end the state’s clean energy law
Internal emails reveal how ALEC, utility industry representatives, and front groups have been working to influence the members of the Ohio Energy Mandates Study Committee.