American Electric Power

Ohio’s largest utilities are opposing state legislation that could help rein in scandal-tainted electric bill riders that have cost their customers billions of dollars.  Executives from AEP, AES, Duke Energy, and FirstEnergy’s Ohio utilities all provided testimony opposing the legislation, House Bill 15 and Senate Bill 2, multiple times in recent weeks to the energy...

Utility members of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce are silent on the industry group’s opposition to Issue 1, which aims to depoliticize how voting districts are drawn in Ohio.  The Yes on Issue 1 campaign, also known as Citizens Not Politicians, aims to end partisan gerrymandering in Ohio, where Republican-drawn voting districts have for years...

Major funders of Issue 1 opponent Ohio Works include the American Jobs and Growth Fund, a dark-money organization with financial ties to the utility and methane gas industries, and the Ohio Oil and Gas Association. Ohio’s Issue 1 is a ballot measure that aims to depoliticize how voting districts are drawn in the Buckeye State...

How FirstEnergy, one of America’s most corrupt utilities, secretly spent millions of dollars as it pursued a multi-billion-dollar federal bailout for its coal and nuclear plants during Donald Trump’s presidency, a bailout Trump promised, but failed to deliver.   Records obtained via subpoena now identify previously unnamed individuals and entities that FirstEnergy admitted in a 2021...