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Duke Energy money fuels North Carolina Republicans as they pursue latest gerrymander

November 5, 2025

Duke Energy has quietly become one of the most powerful funders behind North Carolina’s Republican Party and politicians, at a time when state GOP leaders have pursued their latest congressional gerrymander.

Consumers Energy bankrolling opposition to Michigan political spending limits

November 4, 2025

Half of the funds raised to combat the ballot initiative trace back to the utility.

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...

Reports

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

October 22, 2025

Utility Industry Contributions to Section 527 Political Organizations

March 28, 2025

Electric utilities falling behind on emission reduction targets

March 17, 2025

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

December 11, 2024

Duke Energy Knew

November 21, 2024

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

August 5, 2024

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

January 30, 2023

Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills

January 26, 2023

Utility front groups spending on disinformation advertising

September 23, 2022

Southern Company Knew

June 8, 2022

Petition for FTC Investigation of Electric Utility Abuses

May 18, 2022

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

May 2, 2022

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

February 17, 2022

List of deceptive RNG and hydrogen projects proposed by utilities

January 6, 2022

Internal documents detail how gas utilities greenwash RNG and hydrogen

January 6, 2022

Gas utilities push RNG and hydrogen to expand fossil fuel infrastructure

January 6, 2022

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

December 1, 2020

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

September 23, 2020

Coal and water conflicts in the American West

July 15, 2020

ExxonMobil attacks wind power, carbon tax in Texas

July 6, 2020

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

December 10, 2019

Utility Carbon Targets Reflect Decarbonization Slowdown In Crucial Next Decade

June 26, 2019

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

July 25, 2017

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

May 9, 2017

The Utility Industry’s Influence at Universities

January 20, 2016

Attacks on Renewable Energy Policies in 2015

July 27, 2015

Utilities’ Anti-Solar Campaign and Misinformation Debunked

March 19, 2015

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

May 21, 2014

Press

The Nevada Independent: Southwest Gas wants to ‘modernize’ how it sets rates. Critics fear risks to customers.

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