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Utility Companies Quick To Fund Republican Governors and Attorneys General in 2017
[…] with several of their executives, have contributed $1,154,355 to the Republican Governors Association in the first six months of 2017, while donating $286,427 to the Democratic Governors Association. Utilities...
FirstEnergy floods FERC with ghostwritten comments seeking bailouts for its coal and nuclear power plants
FirstEnergy is behind hundreds of pages of largely ghostwritten comments seeking bailouts for the utility’s failing coal and nuclear power plants that were submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory […]
Budweiser’s pro-wind power Super Bowl ad attacked by fossil fuel industry
[…] better,” the Budweiser ad says. “Now brewed with wind power for a better tomorrow.” The first volley came from the American Energy Alliance just one day after Anheuser-Busch announced...
Acme Equities wants to add expensive carbon capture to distressed coal plant
[…] coal plants owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Front group promotes CCS plan Acme’s plans first became public on Saturday morning at a legislative hearing, but a front group...
Petra Nova carbon capture project stalls with cheap oil
[…] captured emissions, the carbon capture project has not operated since May 1, 2020. E&E News first reported that the carbon capture project had been placed in a “mothball status.”...
While Touting Clean Energy Steps, Con Edison Continues to Invest in Gas Infrastructure
[…] when the Commission failed to approve Mountain Valley Pipeline’s request for expedited construction on its first 77 miles. All these delays are ballooning the project’s costs. The most recent...
Four major Ohio utilities shut off customers’ electricity 200,000 times during COVID-19 pandemic
AEP, FirstEnergy, Duke Energy, and DP&L disconnected Ohio customers who couldn't pay their bills during the Covid-19 pandemic.
CenterPoint, Atmos sponsor Texas Republican Party convention with exclusionary agenda despite corporate diversity pledges
[…] the Energy and Policy Institute, CenterPoint parroted language from its diversity and inclusion webpage. “ First and foremost, at CenterPoint Energy, we are committed to advancing diversity, equity and...
What If The Marcellus Shale Gas Play Doesn’t Pan Out?
[…] forecast over the 2015-2040 period. Average decline rate for shale gas well is 75-85% over first three years While the increase in U.S. shale gas production is stunning, so...
Decades before Harvey and Irma, electric utilities knew climate change could fuel more powerful storms and still funded denial
[…] on Climate Change From 1968-2017. Thirty years ago, the study by ICF Incorporated represented “…a first attempt at analyzing the potential impacts of climate change on individual electric utilities.”...