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Utilities Quietly Walk Back Commitments to Diverse Hiring, Social Justice
After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across the U.S....
Several Utilities Donate to Trump Inauguration Committee
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...
Southern Company Retreats on Clean Energy Ambition as Emissions Cuts Stall
Southern Company has quietly weakened the key greenhouse gas reduction metric used in its executive compensation program — a move that makes it easier for top executives to receive performance...
Southern Company extends life of coal plants to power data centers, appears to abandon net zero goal
New filings in Mississippi and Georgia show Southern Company’s utility subsidiaries in those states are seeking to extend the life of three coal-fired power plants, jeopardizing the company’s ability to...
Global Climate Coalition documents reveal the electric utility industry’s role in notorious climate denial campaign
Electric utilities played a prominent role in the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group that worked for over a decade to sow doubt about climate change and block efforts to...
Will the U.S. Chamber continue to fight the EPA’s endangerment finding in 2018?
Update January 10, 2018: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce confirmed today it is no longer trying to overturn the EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions, but top U.S. Chamber officials...
Decades before Harvey and Irma, electric utilities knew climate change could fuel more powerful storms and still funded denial
A 1987 study sponsored by the electric utility industry warned that climate change could one day fuel more powerful storms, some thirty years before hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Despite this...
Three HUGE Utilities Donated to Donald Trump’s Inauguration
President Donald Trump's inaugural committee raised a record $106.7 million - twice as much money as any other inauguration.