Results for: first energy

Project Tundra coal carbon capture project environmental assessment

Department of Energy analysis says coal carbon capture project would emit more greenhouse gases than it stores

An environmental assessment published by the Department of Energy found that Project Tundra, a major coal carbon capture project proposed in North Dakota, would emit more greenhouse gases than it...

/ September 14, 2023

Dominion Energy loses some of its legislative champions in Virginia primaries

[…] Dick Saslaw (D) who received at least $660,000 in donations from Dominion since he was first elected to the Senate in 1980, according to the Virginia Public Access Project....

/ July 10, 2023

Political consultant for pipeline company teams up with anti-wind and solar activists in Michigan 

[…] pipeline company to fight legislation that would make it easier to site and build renewable energy projects in the state. Our Home, Our Voice (OHOV) is a 501(c)(4) organization...

/ November 8, 2023

Donors Trust: The Secret Group Funding Attacks on Clean Energy & Climate Science

[…] called “Donors Trust” and “Donors Capital” to 102 groups denying climate science and attacking clean energy. The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg reports that “the funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped...

/ February 15, 2013

Beacon Hill Institute EPA Attack Funded Through Richard Berman Front Group

To: Interested Reporters Fr: Nick Surgey, Center for Media and Democracy, 608-229-6807, nick@prwatch.org Gabe Elsner, Energy and Policy Institute, 202-297-0145, elsnerg@energyandpolicy.org Re: Revealed: Beacon Hill Institute biased studies opposing EPA...

/ February 23, 2015

Vitter and His Campaign Contributors Fight Against EPA Carbon Rules, Favor Anti-Environment Agenda

Vitter’s Billionaire’s Club report is a distraction from the real billionaires in politics with whose dirty energy agenda David Vitter is strongly aligned.

/ August 21, 2015

Koch and Trump Factions Plan to Erase Climate Policy Gains

[…] the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, despite his campaign pledge to “scrap” the EPA’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants. Ayotte and her Democratic opponent Governor...

/ November 21, 2016

Emails show Wisconsin Commissioner Nowak’s relationship with utility industry players

[…] not speaking on panels.” The agenda listed the invited executives from several investor-owned utility companies, including FirstEnergy, Duke Energy, Entergy, and Xcel Energy. No representatives from any environmental advocacy or...

/ July 7, 2017

Candidates for Florida Public Service Commission Echo Utility Industry Solar Talking Points

[…] chair of the nominating council, asked several of the candidates for their views on renewable energy. The answers ranged from “we need to embrace solar” to the notion that...

/ September 5, 2017

Five Ohio Supreme Court justices received FirstEnergy campaign cash before they axed a $43 million refund to the utility’s customers

Five of the six Ohio Supreme Court justices who ruled that FirstEnergy does not have to refund $43.4 million to customers have received campaign contributions from FirstEnergy. The Ohio Supreme...

/ February 14, 2018