Karlee Weinmann 
Itai Vardi 
Sue Sturgis 
Daniel Tait 
Matt Kasper 
Dave Anderson 
Who’s who in former PUCO chairman Samuel Randazzo’s indictment?
A federal grand jury has indicted former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chairman Samuel Randazzo on bribery and fraud charges. FirstEnergy is not named in the indictment, which was unsealed...
Political consultant for pipeline company teams up with anti-wind and solar activists in Michigan
A new group formed by anti-wind and solar activists in Michigan has teamed up with a Republican political consulting firm that also represents an oil and gas pipeline company to...
Utility campaign giving nears $500K as Michigan lawmakers weigh energy bills
DTE Energy and Consumers Energy PAC spending this year favors Democrats, who have a trifecta and have pledged to pass clean energy bills.
Potomac Edison faces Maryland audit after admitting it charged customers for FirstEnergy’s bribes and lobbying
Maryland utility regulators ordered a new audit of Potomac Edison last week, after the FirstEnergy-owned utility admitted in a rate case that it owes nearly $1.7 million in refunds to...
Duke Energy doubles down on gas in updated NC Carbon Plan, despite unreliability during Winter Storm Elliott
Duke Energy plans to deepen its reliance on methane gas, the volatile fuel responsible for consumers’ skyrocketing bills, according to the utility’s mid-August proposal to comply with North Carolina’s new...
Gas utilities evaded federal stove regulations with Big Tobacco tactics
Gas utilities fended off federal regulations of gas stoves by deploying the same tactics as the tobacco industry to undermine public health research, according to a new report published by...
Fossil fuel money lurks behind anti-offshore wind power political ads in New Jersey
A Republican group that paid for anti-offshore wind power ads targeting Democrats ahead of New Jersey’s November 7 state legislative elections raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from the...
Michigan legislators took $176K from DTE since pledging new era of utility accountability after outage backlash
DTE Energy's contributions to campaign and party funds come as Democrats attempt to pass climate and consumer protection bills.
Alabama Commission President Misleads Legislative Review Committee about Alabama Power’s High Rate of Profit
Alabama’s top utility regulator, Twinkle Cavanaugh, falsely implied to a state legislative review committee late last month that the Alabama Public Service Commission had more than halved the amount of...
Florida Supreme Court orders Florida Public Service Commission to do its job
Opinion from the court instructs the Commission to provide further explanation of its support of FPL’s 2021 rate increase settlement