Results for: first energy

Big Bend Sea Wall TECO

TECO’s Political Contributions Seem Geared to Influence Approval of New Big Bend Gas Plant with Sea Wall

[…] Contributor Amount Friends of Ashley Moody (PAC) 01/02/2019 HOLLAND & KNIGHT, LLP $10,000 Florida Consumers First (PAC) (Note: Associated with Commissioner Nikki Fried) 01/14/2019 TECO ENERGY, INC.  $25,000 Friends...

/ July 24, 2019

Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy

[…] director at CARE. Noon is also listed as an “Expert” on The Heartland Institute’s website. CARE was a co-sponsor of Heartland’s  first International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC1). In Louisiana, Noon published an op-ed in...

Washington DC PSC Rejects FOIA requests for records of Willie Phillips’ participation in industry-funded events

[…] possible appointee to replace Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Neil Chatterjee.  The Energy and Policy Institute first requested Phillips’ communications regarding his membership on the Keystone Policy Center’s Energy Board...

/ August 6, 2021
Utility Corruption

FERC issues Notice of Inquiry to understand how it can protect customers from subsidizing trade association political activities

[…] of the regulated entities themselves.” Commissioner Christie said, “I respectfully disagree with any suggestion that First Amendment rights are implicated, much less threatened, by this inquiry … Nothing keeps...

/ December 20, 2021
FPL Natural Gas

Florida Power & Light $1.53 billion rate hike settlement includes new fossil gas investments

[…] utilities to defeat clean energy policies in recent years. The association gave an award to FirstEnergy for its lobbying to pass House Bill 6, the Ohio law now at...

/ August 17, 2021

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

[…] to right: Chris Crane, Exelon; Pedro Pizarro, Edison International​). Source: EEI Twitter, September 10, 2020 First, governments have granted monopoly status to investor-owned electric and gas utilities, which means...

/ September 22, 2020

FirstEnergy CEO Steven Strah emailed about “under the radar” House Bill 6 provision that cost Ohio ratepayers millions of dollars

FirstEnergy CEO Steven Strah, who rose through the ranks to replace the company’s previous CEO amid the fallout from federal corruption charges related to FirstEnergy’s efforts to pass a […]

/ August 25, 2022

Georgia Power’s “Smart Usage” Rate Leads to Higher Bills for 61% of Customers, Analysis Shows

[…] customers are not happy with their experience.  One of those customers was Zoe Eisenberg.  Eisenberg first joined the Smart Usage rate in June 2022 when she signed up for...

/ December 8, 2022

Atlantic Offshore Drilling Plans Continue: Fossil Fuel Front Groups Meet Privately With Federal Agencies

[…] contacted by The Capital Times. The Obama Administration’s 2017-2022 Offshore Drilling Timeline BOEM began the first step in 2017-2022 OCS leasing program by having a comment period, which began...

/ November 7, 2014
The Kemper "clean coal" power plant.

Southern Company Says Kemper Not Viable as Coal Plant, Blames the PSC

[…] is written by Dan Zegart, and cross-posted from the Climate Investigations Center In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power...

/ February 27, 2017