Tucson Electric Power

Tucson Electric Power (TEP) spent $2.1 million, which it intends to collect from customers, on memberships in political trade associations, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, and other groups

The Utility Air Regulatory Group announced on Friday that its remaining members had decided to disband the embattled project after more than 40 years. UARG had been an unincorporated group of utilities represented by lawyers at Hunton Andrews Kurth that fought against clean air standards. But while the utilities may have dissolved UARG, the same...

As investigations continue into former Utility Air Regulatory Group attorney and EPA Assistant Administrator Bill Wehrum over possible violations of ethics rules, a flood of utility companies that were members of the UARG group have announced their departure. The remaining utility members of UARG, which has fought against clean air standards for four decades, have...