Category: Front Groups
Michigan Energy Promise
Michigan Energy Promise is a front group with strong ties to the monopoly utility DTE Energy. It registered with the state on January 2, 2019. According to Midwest Energy News,...
Major solar project in Spotsylvania targeted by climate skeptics, fossil fuel interests
A 500 megawatt solar project in Spotsylvania County, Virginia has drawn attacks from climate skeptics, fossil fuel interests, and right-wing news outlets. The Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center, developed by sPower,...
Budweiser’s pro-wind power Super Bowl ad attacked by fossil fuel industry
The pro-wind power Budweiser ad that Anheuser-Busch will air during the Super Bowl on Sunday is being attacked by the fossil fuel industry. The Kentucky Coal Association is among the...
Citizens for Energizing Michigan’s Economy
Citizens for Energizing Michigan’s Economy (CEME) is a 501(c)(4) dark money group funded by Consumers Energy and overseen by utility lobbyists. CEME has funneled millions of dollars to other nonprofits...
Seneca Anti-Wind Union has ties to a lawyer for Big Coal
Leading members of the Seneca Anti-Wind Union who are opposing proposals to build new wind farms in their county are represented by a lawyer who is also fighting other renewable...
Video shows FERC nominee Bernard McNamee’s bias against renewable energy
A newly resurfaced video further confirms Bernard McNamee is biased against renewable energy and favors fossil fuels, as the Senate considers his nomination by President Trump to serve on the...
FirstEnergy targets Cordray, DeWine as it lobbies for a bailout from Ohio consumers
FirstEnergy has poured money, food, and beverages into the race for governor in Ohio, where Republican candidate Mike DeWine and Democrat Richard Cordray have both voiced general support for efforts...
Former governor Sununu defends climate skeptic at controversial Portsmouth Conference
Former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu defended the views of climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg last week during the Portsmouth Conference, a controversial event held in a coastal region of...
Utilities, Koch groups back Sununu’s veto of net metering bill in New Hampshire
Updated on September 11, 2018. Former New Hampshire House speaker Bill O’Brien, now a lobbyist for the Edison Electric Institute, and the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity will host an...
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Trump misfires on windmills, coal in upstate New York
President Trump attacked subsidies for “windmills” this week while in upstate New York, but didn’t mention his multi-billion dollar plan to bail out the coal industry, which has backed some...