Category: Front Groups
Electric Markets Research Foundation (EMRF)
The Electric Markets Research Foundation, or EMRF, is a front group for electric utilities. It has commissioned papers supporting utilities’ positions on issues like net metering and the need to extend the...
Documents reveal who’s behind RPS and RGGI repeal bills in New Hampshire
February 14, 2017 update: A bill to repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will be retained the committee for now, the bill’s sponsor told ICIS Analytics. Republican Jeb Bradley, the New Hampshire...
Donald Trump Has Nominated Oklahoma AG Pruitt, ALEC and Fossil Fuel Industry Ally, To Lead EPA
"We have an EPA that is engaged in rulemaking, proposed rulemaking, that seeks to exert itself in a way that the statute doesn’t authorize at all."
American Electric PowerAmerican Legislative Exchange CouncilFirstEnergyInstitute for Energy ResearchRenewable Energy Standards
Follow the money behind attacks on clean energy in Ohio
December 28, 2016 update: Republican Governor John Kasich has vetoed legislation – HB 554 – that would have effectively extended the freeze on Ohio’s clean energy standards for another two years...
Koch and Trump Factions Plan to Erase Climate Policy Gains
Forces from the Koch and Trump camps are converging around plans to erase some of the key climate policy gains of the past eight years. Koch group is hopeful Trump will...
Where is the National Black Chamber of Commerce getting its money to attack solar power in Florida? And is it breaking the law?
National Black Chamber of Commerce contributed money to Consumers for Smart Solar through a lobbying arm of the organization that was revoked by the IRS
Press Release: Florida Utilities Pour $3.5 Million More Into Anti-Solar Amendment 1
Florida Power & Light now the biggest bankroller of a ballot campaign in Florida history; Duke Energy second
Consumers for Smart Solar Caught Deleting References to the James Madison Institute
Deletions started to occur after leaked audio sufaced of JMI revealing the true intentions behind Amendment 1
Press Release: Utility-funded PAC caught attempting more “political jiu-jitsu”
Consumers for Smart Solar tries to delete online ties to James Madison Institute
Leaked Audio Shows How Florida Utilities Sought to Deceive Voters to Support Amendment 1
"use the language of promoting solar, and kind of, kind of put in these protections for consumers that choose not to install rooftop"