Edison Electric Institute

After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across the U.S. have begun to water down or abandon their commitments to promote diversity within their businesses and better serve communities of color. The retreat coincides with...

Monopoly utilities NextEra Energy, Sempra, Southern Company, and Washington Gas were among the donors to Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration.  The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc., received large checks from a variety of corporations including those throughout the fossil fuel industry and several large investor-owned monopoly utilities, according to the committee’s recent filings with the...

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on his first major energy package earlier this month, a suite of policies likely to increase Missourians’ utility bills and corporate utilities’ profits, reflecting his deep ties to the industry. Kehoe signed Senate Bill (SB) 4—the Missouri legislature’s omnibus utility bill—into law on April 9. The bill, led by Republican State Senator Mike...

Corporate utilities are largely staying silent and uncritical of the Trump Administration even as mass federal layoffs threaten the continued existence of the Low-Income Home Energy Association Program (LIHEAP), a program utilities rely on extensively to help millions of their customers afford heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer. The Trump Administration terminated...