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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...
Texas Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Texas Senate voted in mid-April to eliminate the state’s renewable energy standard (RES) with a party-line vote of 21-10. Senator Troy Fraser argued that the state had accomplished the...
Washington Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
[…] voters passed Ballot Initiative 937 creating what was, at the time, the country’s second renewable energy standard (RES). The RES requires large utilities to obtain 15% of their electricity...
Acadian Consulting Group
[…] Public Service Commission (LPSC) on the subject of net metering earlier this year. Dismukes has criticized renewable energy subsidies, while supporting those for for fossil fuels. Critics of the consultant point to funding...
Iowa Net Metering Attacked
[…] year, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad surrendered a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that would have been used to help cut costs and ease regulations...
Our Mission
The Energy and Policy Institute is a watchdog organization working to expose attacks on renewable energy and counter misinformation by fossil fuel and utility interests. We need to power the economy...
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
[…] environment in the state and make it “more favorable” like Illinois and under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. For instance, legislation passed in Illinois in 2011 allowed Ameren’s Illinois...
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...
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...
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...