Edison Electric Institute

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is a trade association that represents monopoly investor-owned utilities. At $96 million in 2023, the D.C.-based trade group is largely funded through payments that utilities recover from their customers’ monthly bills. EEI is an inherently political trade group that advocates and lobbies on behalf of its utility members. EEI was involved in a campaign to aggressively work to sow doubt about climate science. Former President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette was briefly the President and CEO of EEI until he resigned from the role in October 2024, less than a year after he took the position. 

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Utility lobbyists host private gathering in Red Sox suite for regulators ahead of NARUC meeting
January 8, 2026
The trade association representing for-profit electric utilities hosted utility regulators alongside industry lobbyists in a luxury Fenway Park suite for a Red Sox game on the sidelines of a regulators’ conference last July, according to public records obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute. The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is the trade association for monopoly...

Utility-funded Republican and Democratic groups try to leverage rising utility bills in New Jersey’s race for governor
October 20, 2025
Updated on October 30, 2025, with additional utility funding for the Democratic Governors Association Investor-owned utilities and utility industry groups have made over $2.6 million in cash and in-kind contributions this year to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association, amid an election cycle where both groups have tried to make political hay out...

Utilities and fossil fuel industry support proposed Trump administration air pollution rollbacks
September 23, 2025
Utilities, fossil fuel companies, and aligned groups filed public comments last month supporting a pair of Trump administration proposals to repeal EPA limits on harmful emissions of air pollution and greenhouse gases from power plants.   One of the Trump administration’s proposals would reverse a Biden-era EPA rule that strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS),...
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