Murray Energy

The Committee for Constructive Tomorrow signed onto a letter in June that urged President Trump’s Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to rescind nearly $427 million in federal funding for a Humboldt Bay marine terminal that would serve as a hub for offshore wind development in California.  A Department of Transportation press release touted Duffy’s cancellation...

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...

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...

New information made public by federal prosecutors in the racketeering case against ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder revealed that $400,000 secretly paid by FirstEnergy passed through two dark money groups, One Ohio United and Citizens for a Working America, before landing at a Super PAC that supported Householder during the 2018 election.  Prosecutors said in...