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DTE Energy employees directed the transfer of money from one dark money nonprofit to another tied to a Michigan official, recent criminal court filings show, contradicting years of the utility denying or downplaying its involvement in secretive political giving. The filings represent the most definitive evidence yet suggesting DTE employees have controlled the activities of...

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...

North Carolina lawmakers this week will begin considering the nomination to the North Carolina Utilities Commission of Donald van der Vaart, whose wife’s work would present potential conflicts of interest for him in this role, and who has been a lightning rod for controversy due to extreme positions questioning humans’ role in driving climate change....

A newly-formed 501(c)4 nonprofit is behind efforts to pass a bill that would enact draconian siting requirements for new solar and wind generation, impose additional permit requirements for developers and stifle the ability for some Texan landowners to develop clean energy resources on their property.