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AEP contributed to dark money group that gave money to Generation Now
[…] charged in the federal criminal complaint that centered around a $61 million bribery scheme involving FirstEnergy. The group, called Empowering Ohio’s Economy, Inc., is a 501(c)(4) organization that paid...
Attacks on Clean Energy in Arizona
[…] the grid exceeds what homeowners are reimbursed for power they are producing. APS led the first assault of a national campaign to weaken net metering policies, part of the...
Do major investors support American Electric Power’s lobbying against President Biden’s clean energy plan?
[…] Public Service Enterprise Group have expressed support for the Clean Electricity Performance Program. E&E News first reported AEP’s lobbying efforts, and the New York Times reported last week: Among...
Florida Legislature hands out millions in tax cuts to fossil fuel companies
[…] about 87,000 gas customers in Florida through its subsidiary Florida Public Utilities. Chesapeake announced its first RNG project in Florida days before the Florida Legislature convened, in a project...
Legislation introduced by Rep. Kathy Castor instructs FERC to ban utilities from using ratepayer dollars for political activities
The “Ethics in Energy Act” also aims to increase transparency and add penalties for noncompliance
California’s newest legislators have first chance to cozy up to Big Oil on Sunday night
[…] no such pledge on behalf of its candidates. All the newly elected freshmen have a first initial opportunity to prove that their loyalties do not lie with Big Oil by skipping...
Under Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil lobbied against carbon tax bills
[…] Institute has discovered that ExxonMobil lobbied against two bills that sought to establish the nation’s first carbon tax in the state of Massachusetts. ExxonMobil lobbied against a revenue-neutral carbon...
Bombshell Votes at Southern Company Annual Meeting for Cleaner Energy, Against CEO Fanning
Southern Company shareholders asserted their disapproval of chief executive officer Tom Fanning, and nearly half the shareholders' votes were cast in favor of steering the company toward climate-friendly energy policies.
Will the U.S. Chamber continue to fight the EPA’s endangerment finding in 2018?
[…] is backing the Trump administration’s effort to replace the Clean Power Plan, as E&E News first reported. The U.S. Chamber has also rolled out new energy policy priorities for...
A growing trend: West Virginia candidates sign pledge to refuse utility contributions
[…] or gifts from monopoly utilities, their Political Action Committees, lobbyists, or executives.” In West Virginia, FirstEnergy and American Electric Power – the state’s two largest monopoly utilities – have...