National Fuel

New evidence shows National Fuel again used ratepayer money for its grassroots lobbying efforts in New York. The large methane gas utility serving 750,000 customers in New York and Pennsylvania sent a letter to its customers last year that urged them to lobby on its behalf to support its long-term energy plan. New York regulators...

While many Americans saw their energy bills go up substantially in the past year, investor-owned electric and gas utilities and the country’s largest publicly owned utility paid their CEOs over $647 million in 2023, an increase of 9 percent over 2022, an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute has found. The CEOs for the...

The “Ethics in Energy Act” also aims to increase transparency and add penalties for noncompliance

Investor-owned electric and gas utilities paid their CEOs $3.2 billion between 2017 and 2022, according to corporate data reviewed by the Energy and Policy Institute. CEOs for the 57 companies reviewed for this analysis received more than $578 million in 2022. Total utility CEO compensation declined from last year, as it did for most other...