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A Department of Energy memorandum identified significant logistical challenges facing the Trump administration’s last-minute order to prevent the closure of the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued the order on May 23, just eight days before the plant was scheduled to shut down on May 31st. Wright’s order...

A new Maine bill, LD 1949, would place limits on the costs utilities can charge their customers for the legal and consulting fees they pay to advocate for rate increases. The bill, introduced by Senator Anne Carney, recently advanced out of the Legislature’s Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Technology and now awaits a floor vote...

Last week North Carolina Democrats held a “bill funeral” in Raleigh for proposals Republican leadership refused to advance, including a bill that would have stopped Duke Energy and other utilities from charging customers for political spending. The N.C. Consumer Protection Act would have strengthened prohibitions barring Duke Energy and other investor-owned utilities from charging customers for political...

The provision would have required independent verification of the utility’s climate goals