Ohio Oil and Gas Association opposes Issue 1: Members have benefited from one-party rule in Columbus
The Ohio Oil and Gas Association has come out in opposition to Issue 1, the ballot initiative that aims to depoliticize how voting districts are drawn in Ohio and end...
Missouri utilities pump more than $400,000 into Kehoe gubernatorial bid
Led by Ameren, utilities have funneled nearly $600,000 to the Republican throughout his political career.
Duke Energy funded climate science-denying John Locke Foundation
Duke Energy contributed $25,000 to the John Locke Foundation (JLF), a leading voice of climate science denial and renewable energy rejectionism in North Carolina. The contribution, which occurred in 2021...
Subpoenaed records detail FirstEnergy’s secret political spending to influence then-President Donald Trump
How FirstEnergy, one of America’s most corrupt utilities, secretly spent millions of dollars as it pursued a multi-billion-dollar federal bailout for its coal and nuclear plants during Donald Trump’s presidency,...
WEC Energy’s We Energies Foundation contributed $2 million to Republican National Convention
The utility previously declined to reveal its contribution
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance PACs raked in millions from gas industry megadonors Karen Buchwald Wright and Thomas Rastin
Ariel Corporation chairman and her spouse have also opposed new solar farms in Ohio Gas industry megadonor couple Karen Buchwald Wright and Thomas Rastin together contributed at least $2.4 million...
Missouri utility regulator urged Governor Parson to prevent detailed disconnection reporting
Commissioner Kayla Hahn, Chair of the Missouri PSC, asked her former boss, Governor Mike Parson, to deny a proposed rule four years in the making because it required utilities to...
Republican candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission position themselves in favor of utility rate increase, against clean energy standards
Voters will decide on the three seats at the ACC this November
As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs’ Pay Spiked Last Year
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...
Utilities, once represented by UARG, now part of the ‘Electric Generators for a Sensible Transition’ in their suit against the EPA
A new ad hoc coalition of electric utilities has sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its newly proposed rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal and new...