Ohio Valley Electric Corporation

A new ad hoc coalition of electric utilities has sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its newly proposed rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal and new gas plants. The coalition, called the “Electric Generators for a Sensible Transition,” is represented by the same attorneys who represented a previous, seemingly similar ad...

Nicholas Akins was still the CEO of AEP and Larry Householder was still the Speaker of the Ohio House when the two met and discussed a planned term limits ballot initiative that would have allowed Householder to extend his grip on power, according to testimony last month by a key prosecution witness at Householder’s racketeering...

Empowering Ohio’s Economy, a group funded solely by American Electric Power, contributed more than $1.5 million to dark money groups in 2020, according to the organization’s tax filings. The source of Empowering Ohio’s Economy’s funding remained a secret until last year, when the group became ensnared in the public corruption scandal surrounding Ohio’s House Bill...

Plus: Mike DeWine’s calendars reveal meetings with leaders from AEP and an AEP-backed dark money group during the final weeks of DeWine’s 2018 campaign for governor American Electric Power disclosed yesterday that it received a subpoena from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking documents related to House Bill 6, the 2019 Ohio law at...