Results for: first energy

Atlantic Offshore Drilling Plans Continue: Fossil Fuel Front Groups Meet Privately With Federal Agencies

[…] contacted by The Capital Times. The Obama Administration’s 2017-2022 Offshore Drilling Timeline BOEM began the first step in 2017-2022 OCS leasing program by having a comment period, which began...

/ November 7, 2014

Paul Chesser, Fossil Fuel Pundit, Attacks Tech Industry’s Cleantech Investments

The biography of Paul Chesser includes a long list of fossil fuel-backed front groups that he’s currently involved with, which may explain his blatant anti-renewable energy stance.

/ November 12, 2015

NextEra Energy Shareholder Resolution on Sea Level Rise Advances

Shareholders have proposed a resolution to NextEra Energy, Inc. that would require the corporation to report material risks and costs of sea level rise scenarios projecting forward to 2100.

/ April 1, 2016

NextEra Energy Shareholders Reject Resolution on Projected Sea Level Rise and Climate Change Impacts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2016 Contact: Alan Farago, alanfarago@me.com, 305-778-8765; Matt Kasper, kasperm@ energyandpolicy.org, 630-908-9615 NextEra Energy Shareholders Reject Resolution on Projected Sea Level Rise and Climate Change Impacts This...

/ May 19, 2016

Jay Clayton, the SEC, and climate change disclosure

[…] to the SEC and investors, and pointed out the legal scrutiny companies like ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy have faced when they failed to do so. The firm’s take on this...

/ January 5, 2017

Andy Tobin Pushes To Keep Open Dirtiest Coal Plant In The Western United States

[…] have backed a different solution to the problem of gas exposure beyond storage and renewable energy: coal. Tobin’s letter is directed to the Salt River Project (SRP), a utility...

/ February 13, 2017
The Kemper "clean coal" power plant.

Southern Company Says Kemper Not Viable as Coal Plant, Blames the PSC

[…] is written by Dan Zegart, and cross-posted from the Climate Investigations Center In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power...

/ February 27, 2017

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...

/ August 8, 2017

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 […]

/ October 26, 2017
AZ Senator Robert Meza, who slammed renewable energy initiative, collects income from multiple organizations tied to APS

AZ legislator who slammed renewable energy initiative collects income from multiple organizations tied to APS

[…] opposes the initiative, which would require it to generate 50% of its electricity from renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2030, instead favoring continued investment in gas...

/ April 9, 2018