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Dominion Energy spending in Virginia elections nears all-time high

October 31, 2025

With no limits on corporate contributions, Dominion has already poured nearly $8.3 million into 2025 statewide and House races, money that helps shape who writes utility law and who oversees the monopoly’s rates.

Regulated utilities fund the outside ventures of Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols

October 30, 2025

Utilities, utility affiliates, natural gas marketers, and related vendors with business in front of the Georgia Public Service Commission have funded two outside ventures connected to Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols. Those two ventures are “Energy Matters,” a weekly radio show hosted by Echols, and the “Clean Energy Roadshow,” a traveling alternative fuel vehicle...

Utility and fossil fuel money lurks behind Maine Question 1 attack on absentee voting

October 22, 2025

The Republican State Leadership Committee, the top donor behind the Question 1 ballot referendum that would make it harder for Maine voters to cast absentee ballots, has raked in money this year from the utility and fossil fuel industries. Voter ID for Maine is the ballot committee backing Question 1 on Maine’s ballot. Roadside signs...

Utility-funded Republican and Democratic groups try to leverage rising utility bills in New Jersey’s race for governor

October 20, 2025

Updated on October 30, 2025, with additional utility funding for the Democratic Governors Association Investor-owned utilities and utility industry groups have made over $2.6 million in cash and in-kind contributions this year to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association, amid an election cycle where both groups have tried to make political hay out...

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Paying for Utility Politics: How ratepayers are forced to fund the Edison Electric Institute and other political organizations

May 9, 2017

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KSDK 5 On Your Side: Data center developers launch new Missouri coalition, but don’t share the power-hungry developments’ risks

Financial Times: Private equity bets big on utilities

Indianapolis Business Journal: As private equity pursues public utilities, reports say BlackRock subsidiary wants to buy AES

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Dominion Energy spending in Virginia elections nears all-time high

Regulated utilities fund the outside ventures of Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols

Utility and fossil fuel money lurks behind Maine Question 1 attack on absentee voting

Utility-funded Republican and Democratic groups try to leverage rising utility bills in New Jersey’s race for governor

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Utility and fossil fuel money lurks behind Maine Question 1 attack on absentee voting

Utility Industry Contributions to Section 527 Political Organizations

Electric utilities falling behind on emission reduction targets

Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury lifestyle expenses

Duke Energy Knew

Fueling the Opposition: How fossil fuel interests are fighting to kill wind and solar farms before they are built

Powerless in the United States: the third installment in the Powerless in the Pandemic series

Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills

Utility front groups spending on disinformation advertising

Southern Company Knew

Petition for FTC Investigation of Electric Utility Abuses

Front groups and trade associations funded by gas utilities fight electrification policies

AGA uses millions of dollars from utility customers to promote a fossil fuel agenda

List of deceptive RNG and hydrogen projects proposed by utilities

Internal documents detail how gas utilities greenwash RNG and hydrogen

Gas utilities push RNG and hydrogen to expand fossil fuel infrastructure

Many U.S. electric utilities plan slow decarbonization over next decade, out of sync with Biden plan

Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities

Coal and water conflicts in the American West

ExxonMobil attacks wind power, carbon tax in Texas

Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits

Utility Carbon Targets Reflect Decarbonization Slowdown In Crucial Next Decade

Utilities Knew: Documenting Electric Utilities’ Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception on Climate Change From 1968-2017

Paying for Utility Politics: How ratepayers are forced to fund the Edison Electric Institute and other political organizations

The Utility Industry’s Influence at Universities

Attacks on Renewable Energy Policies in 2015

Utilities’ Anti-Solar Campaign and Misinformation Debunked

Attacks on Renewable Energy Policy by Fossil Fuel Interests 2013-2014

Press

KSDK 5 On Your Side: Data center developers launch new Missouri coalition, but don’t share the power-hungry developments’ risks

Financial Times: Private equity bets big on utilities

Indianapolis Business Journal: As private equity pursues public utilities, reports say BlackRock subsidiary wants to buy AES

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