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Internal documents detail how gas utilities greenwash RNG and hydrogen
[…] “take advantage of power outage fear.” The meeting was hosted by a consortium within the Energy Solutions Center, which is a nonprofit housed in the office of the American...
Utility Industry Contributions to Section 527 Political Organizations
[…] contributed over $25,000 in 2018 and have access to the briefing room are Centerpoint Energy, FirstEnergy, and Vistra Energy. CBS News also investigated RAGA and reported on their April...
Caesar Rodney Institute: State Policy Network attacks on offshore wind power
[…] network of think tanks that are frequently at the forefront of political attacks on renewable energy and funded by right-leaning donors and fossil fuel interests. David Stevenson is the...
Confidential Documents Reveal Fossil Fuel-Funded Organizations Coordinating With Local Anti-Wind Groups
[…] offensive on multiple fronts to turn the American public against wind farms and Barack Obama’s energy agenda. This coordination between local anti-wind groups and fossil fuel-funded advocacy groups’ attacking...
The Maine Players Attacking Renewable Energy: The Koch Brothers
In a new report, the Maine Conservation Alliance asks: are we debating renewable energy, or the Koch brothers’ profits?” Maine’s renewable energy standards have been the prime target of the Koch...
LEED Green Building Standards Attacked By Chemical and Timber Industries
The chemical and timber industries are working across the country to eliminate energy efficiency standards modeled on the latest version of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the industry...
With Kochs Now Attacking Electric Vehicles, Utilities Should Reexamine Their Friends
[…] launch Fueling U.S. Forward, attacked Ohio’s renewable portfolio standard, fighting shoulder to shoulder alongside utilities FirstEnergy and American Electric Power. IER also has echoed utility claims against net metering, claiming...
Trump’s FBI nominee Christopher Wray weighed in on the ExxonMobil climate change investigations
[…] A screenshot from the webcast the 2016 launch of the AGs for Clean Power coalition First, some quick background on the issues at play, followed by some details on...
AEP proposes to hike fixed charges in latest affront to low income customers
[…] But a bill being pushed in Ohio by AEP, Dayton Power & Light, Duke Energy, and FirstEnergy would put customers on the hook for a $256 million per year bailout of...