Category: Politics
Introspective profiles and spotlights on today’s global politics.
Fossil fuel money lurks behind anti-offshore wind power political ads in New Jersey
A Republican group that paid for anti-offshore wind power ads targeting Democrats ahead of New Jersey’s November 7 state legislative elections raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from the...
Ohio bill would bar utilities from charging customers for politics
Separate legislation would protect children, elderly, low-income customers from shut-offs.
Maine becomes third state this year to pass legislation prohibiting utilities from charging ratepayers for political activities
Maine joins Connecticut and Colorado to pass comprehensive utility accountability legislation in 2023
FirstEnergy secretly ‘engaged’ Corey Lewandowski to lobby Trump for a public bailout, subpoenaed records confirm after years of denials
FirstEnergy secretly ‘engaged’ Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to lobby President Trump to deliver a public bailout for the utility company’s coal and nuclear power plants in 2017-2018,...
Utility executive contributions surge in Minnesota state senate race
Out-of-state utility execs flood campaign in a district with a population of just 85,000
Southwest Gas connected to web of opposition targeting Nevada Assemblywoman
The gas utility and a front group look to unseat Assemblywoman who introduced climate legislation ahead of the June 14 primary
Justin Olson, Arizona utility regulator, is an executive of Turning Point USA, group whose political arm sponsored rally preceding attack on Capitol
Olson has held a second job as the group's Chief Financial Officer
Trump’s false claim about windmills, noise and cancer defended by Koch-backed blog
A blog post defending President Trump’s false claim that noise from windmills causes cancer has been published on MasterResource.org, a blog run by a think tank backed by the powerful...
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...
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...