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Utility CEOs contribute personal money to help Republicans; Utility PACs also favor GOP
[…] the U.S. Senate and to buoy Republicans’ electoral prospects in the House, according to an Energy and Policy Institute analysis of federal campaign contributions. Utility political action committees (PACs)...
Florida’s investor-owned utilities spent heavily on Republican interest groups in 2020 elections
[…] neither Our Florida or The Truth PC committees have filed campaign finance reports since the first week of October, despite receiving letters warning of financial penalties for not reporting. ...
AEP resumes political contributions paused after U.S. Capitol attack
[…] $1 billion nuclear power plant bailout being signed into law as part of HB 6. FirstEnergy, which hasn’t been formally named or charged in the Householder case, has admitted...
Maryland Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
[…] member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), introduced a bill to repeal the state’s Energy Efficiency Resource Standard, which requires utilities to meet a 15% reduction in per...
Wisconsin Net Metering Attacked
[…] ALEC to lobby not only state lawmakers but also local legislators to weaken distributed solar energy policies. Furthermore, during the hearings an organization called the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA)...
Utah State University’s Institute of Political Economy / Strata
[…] Director of Research for Strata, which describes itself as the “premier research hub on environmental, energy and public land issues.” The Koch Bothers have provided Utah State University with at least $1.6 million in...
Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities
Download full report Alliant Energy Alliant Energy, a Wisconsin-based utility holding company that operates Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL) and the Iowa utility Interstate Power and Light (IPL), provides its...
DTE Energy
[…] plan Pollution Payday: analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities FirstEnergy scandal is latest example of utility corruption, deceit Michigan’s new PSC members will...
Records Show Senior Florida Power & Light Execs Closely Connected to Election Scandals
[…] taken tens of thousands of dollars in political contributions from Florida’s investor-owned utilities. When McClure first introduced the concept of changing Florida’s net metering policy in 2019, he had...
New Yorkers for Affordable Energy
[…] upfront costs and utility bills. Lobbyist Mike Lawler of Checkmate Strategies served as the group’s first executive director. Lawler, a Republican state assemblymember since 2020, recently won his congressional...