Alliant Energy

Oil, gas, and coal company PACs spent too in failed efforts to keep GOP Senate control

While the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the U.S. economy, leaving millions of Americans struggling to afford their utility bills, the top executives for those utilities continue breaking their own records for executive compensation every year. The Energy and Policy Institute analyzed the executive compensation policies and practices of 19 of the largest investor-owned electric utilities...

A mosaic of state policies and voluntary pledges has meant that the effects of missing a utility payment are playing out unevenly across the country.

Electric utilities are backing a proposal to gut the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), a federal law that supports the growth of renewable energy and competition in electricity markets, and they brought their network of special interest groups and paid consultants to the fight.  A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) backed by President Trump’s...