Results for: first energy

Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond, CA

California Democrats who got big gifts from Oil Industry gave big gifts back

[…] the oil industry has showered those Democrats with campaign contributions, but our analysis is the first that systematically looks at the gifts that oil companies and their allies have...

/ March 8, 2017

Dominion Bets Big on Establishment Candidates Northam, Gillespie in Virginia Gov Race

[…] West Virginia through Southern Virginia. The company gave $10,000 to the Northam campaign in the first quarter of 2017. One of its board members, Vicky A. Bailey, has given...

/ April 19, 2017
Flooding in Norfolk, VA

As floodwaters rise in Southeast, Republicans divide on whether to name climate change as cause

[…] AFP said this month that it would spend $1 to $2 million in a “ first round” of ads attacking Gillespie’s opponent, Ralph Northam, with more to come. Gillespie...

/ September 19, 2017
Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning on CNBC

Southern Company’s “Low to No Carbon” Pledge Misleads Investors, Public

[…] that they “can’t get in front of their regulators.”  That rationale ignores two key points: First, while climate change may remain controversial for some Republican public service commissioners in...

/ August 27, 2019

Southern Company’s Lobbying Disclosures Obscure State-Level Information from Investors, Public

[…] goal, Southern Company is actively lobbying Congress for “environmental regulatory relief, generally,” according to its first quarter 2020 federal lobbying disclosure. Southern Relies on Limited State Filings to Obscure...

/ April 30, 2020

Coal, Gas Lobbyists Behind PA Officials’ Letters Against RGGI, Emails Show

[…] DEP and IRRC. Dando, meanwhile, recently joined a new lobbying firm, Allegheny Strategy Partners, whose first client is a coal company, Rosebud Mining. The firm also hired former Republican...

/ March 4, 2021

UARG, the sequel? “Clean Air Act Monitoring Service” and “Climate Legal Group” appear at McGuireWoods

[…] Nonattainment Committee, spent over $3.4 million on legal fees and expenses between 2015 and the first half of 2018. This committee spent just $48,000 on technical fees during that...

/ April 7, 2021

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

[…] Policy’s media strategy to advocate for conservative issues: “Mackinac has a two-part media strategy. The first, more traditional flank involves putting out a steady stream of reports designed to...

/ March 27, 2018

American Electric Power-backed dark money group spent over $1.5 million in 2020

[…] in connection with nearly $60 million in bribe payments secretly paid by another Ohio utility, FirstEnergy, involved in the passage of H.B. 6. Householder was also indicted last year...

/ November 22, 2021
Chip Beeker Alabama Public Service Commission

Alabama Commissioner Chip Beeker’s Catfish Farm Loans $100k to Campaign After Receiving PPP Forgiveness

[…] $120,883 in farm subsidies since 1995, 80% of which came in the years since his first election in 2014, according to the EWG farm subsidy database. Beeker has been...

/ May 18, 2022