FirstEnergy

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...

The premiere of HBO’s new documentary “The Dark Money Game” shines a spotlight on FirstEnergy’s bribes-for-bailouts scheme in Ohio just days after President Trump revived a failed push to use federal emergency powers to bail out coal-fired power plants that FirstEnergy lobbied for extensively during Trump’s first term.  “Ohio Confidential,” the first film in acclaimed...

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...