Category: Front Groups
Energy Solutions Center
Energy Solutions Center Energy Solutions Center, Inc. (ESC) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization that helps utilities expand the gas market. ESC, which has links to the American Gas Association, provides its...
Virginia Energy Consumer Trust
Virginia Energy Consumer Trust The Virginia Energy Consumer Trust is a pro-gas front group based in Virginia. The group is closely associated with the Virginia Manufacturers Association, an influential industry...
New records suggest Alabama Power paid millions to shadowy consulting groups involved in scandals throughout the Southeast
Payments went to monitor environmental groups
Utility Front Group Sparks Attack on Florida Rooftop Solar Amid Ongoing COVID Crisis
Attack led by Florida legislator who has accepted over $20,000 from utilities in political contributions
Who is behind anti-regional transmission organization ads in the Southeast?
Google ads appear as Duke Energy, Southern Company advocate for more limited regional exchange, and following anti-RTO Facebook ads from dark money group
Energy companies in U.S. Chamber silent as Chamber opposed use of Defense Production Act to produce medical supplies for COVID-19
But some energy companies in the Chamber have lobbied for using the DPA to bail out struggling coal plants instead
FirstEnergy drafted testimony for pro-bailout county, school officials in Ohio
FirstEnergy provided draft testimony to county and school officials who testified in support of enacting House Bill 6, Ohio’s controversial new law that bails out coal and nuclear power plants...
Coal lobby group drafted state utility commissioners’ letters to FERC
Emails show that the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity provided utility commissioners with a template letter to FERC - which some commissioners copied word-for-word