Sempra

Monopoly utilities NextEra Energy, Sempra, Southern Company, and Washington Gas were among the donors to Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration.  The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc., received large checks from a variety of corporations including those throughout the fossil fuel industry and several large investor-owned monopoly utilities, according to the committee’s recent filings with the...

Some Support At-Risk Senate Democrats

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...

Gas utilities fended off federal regulations of gas stoves by deploying the same tactics as the tobacco industry to undermine public health research, according to a new report published by the Climate Investigations Center. NPR published a story featuring the report, including exclusive interviews with some of the first scientists to identify the health risks...