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Duke Energy spends big on Republicans, “soft money” groups in 2020 election
[…] group seeking to boost fundraising for Democratic challengers to flip the state legislature, and as first reported by the Energy News Network. Under North Carolina law, corporations cannot contribute...
Michigan Releases Report on Renewable Energy Benefits Amidst Front Group Attacks
The Michigan Public Service Commission released a report detailing how renewable energy is saving consumers money and leading to robust business investment.
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Edison Electric Institute’s Anti-Solar, PR Spending Revealed
Over the past couple of decades, special interests from the coal, oil, utilities, and other energy industries have routinely used lobbying, public relations, and other means to impact decisions that...
Pope Francis’ Encyclical: Clean Energy and The Moral Case for Climate Solutions
[…] On the Care of Our Common Home”, calling on “every person living on this planet” to urgently address climate change, reduce the use of fossil fuels, and transition to...
Seneca Anti-Wind Union has ties to a lawyer for Big Coal
[…] the Trump administration’s rollback of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which sought to establish the first-ever limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act....
Bill Seitz’s FirstEnergy bailout bill is one target of a subpoena
Records show Rep. Bill Seitz, the third-ranking Republican in the Ohio House, worked with FirstEnergy to draft a nuclear power plant bailout bill that’s now the subject of a federal...
Executive Summary: Why and How Fossil Fuel Interests are Attacking Clean Energy?
[…] an industry that’s operated largely in the same way since Thomas Edison turned on the first investor-owned power station in 1882. Due to the realities of the electricity market,...
North Carolina HB 951 could mean windfall for Duke, large rate increases for customers
[…] third years of the plans to 4%, it does not set a limit for the first year and does not allow the Commission to make changes to a proposal...
Wind energy is a key wedge in the fight against global warming
[…] is from his paper showing an enhanced view of this increase in ground temperature. First, the facts. Mr. Zhou did publish a paper which found warming under wind...
Major investors find electric utilities are not on track to meet decarbonization goals
[…] are several large U.S. electric utilities: AES, American Electric Power, Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Exelon, FirstEnergy, NextEra, NRG, PPL, Southern Company, Vistra Energy, WEC Energy, and Xcel Energy. The...