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Across the Southeast, primary elections held last week showed a trend of incumbent utility regulators losing seats or being forced into runoffs to opponents vowing to hold utilities accountable for rising rates and increasing costs. In Alabama, two Public Service Commission (PSC) incumbent candidates were ousted or forced into runoffs in the Republican primary held...

CenterPoint’s two political action committees (PACs) contributed $2 million to Texas PACs and politicians between 2021 and 2026, with Republican candidates and PACs associated with Republican priorities receiving the lion’s share of funds, according to a review of political contribution filings by the Energy and Policy Institute. The bulk of the political donations, totaling $1.35...

Raul Claros, a candidate for Los Angeles City Council, is the founder of several local organizations that collectively have received more than $150,000 in contributions and sponsorships from Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) over the past decade. Claros, a longtime nonprofit executive and former Executive Director at the Los Angeles chapter of the American Red Cross,...

The utility company routed funds from its Duke Energy Carolinas subsidiary into a political nonprofit where it’s the sole donor. Then that group gave $200,000 to a super PAC launched this year to help the longtime North Carolina Senate president pro tem, who fell short by 23 votes.