Category: FirstEnergy

13 FirstEnergy utilities paid $144 million for external affairs to service company involved in Ohio bribery scandal
FirstEnergy utilities in five states paid $144 million over three years for external affairs support from the central service company that’s alleged to be the source of tens of millions...

More Generation Now dark money traced to AEP in Ohio corruption scandal
A Columbus group funded solely by AEP paid just over a half-million dollars last year to Generation Now, the group indicted this summer on federal racketeering charges alongside former Ohio...

Update: FirstEnergy indicates its treasurer signed checks to Generation Now
March 8, 2021 update: FirstEnergy responded to months old allegations that its new CEO Steven Strah signed checks to Generation Now, which last month plead guilty to participating in a...
Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities
Download full report FirstEnergy FirstEnergy Corporation’s regulated electric distribution companies serve customers in Maryland, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The compensation mix for FirstEnergy’s CEO in 2019 was...

Bill Seitz’s FirstEnergy bailout bill is one target of a subpoena
Records show Rep. Bill Seitz, the third-ranking Republican in the Ohio House, worked with FirstEnergy to draft a nuclear power plant bailout bill that’s now the subject of a federal...

Ohio corruption scandal hits Energy Harbor bankruptcy case
Updated on August 18, 2020: The judge in Energy Harbor’s bankruptcy case will take another three months to consider final approval of fees and expenses for the utility’s outside firms,...

Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested. Will FirstEnergy Corp. be charged next? What you need to know
Federal prosecutors have charged Householder in a $60 million corruption scheme. Will FirstEnergy Corp. be charged next?

Energy Harbor reveals money, risks involved in Ohio bailout
Financial documents from Energy Harbor reveal new details about FirstEnergy Corp.’s involvement in the multi-million dollar political campaign behind Ohio’s law forcing consumers to bail out struggling coal and nuclear...
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
Download full report FirstEnergy FirstEnergy Corporation’s regulated electric distribution companies provide service to 6 million customers in Maryland, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. FirstEnergy Solutions, a bankrupt subsidiary,...

FirstEnergy drafted testimony for pro-bailout county, school officials in Ohio
FirstEnergy provided draft testimony to county and school officials who testified in support of enacting House Bill 6, Ohio’s controversial new law that bails out coal and nuclear power plants...