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Ohio’s big utilities fight repeal of scandal-tainted bill riders that cost customers billions of dollars
[…] that have cost their customers billions of dollars. Executives from AEP, AES, Duke Energy, and FirstEnergy’s Ohio utilities all provided testimony opposing the legislation, House Bill 15 and Senate...
The Energy Poverty Awareness Center (EnPAC)
[…] the energy source they use.” CCEJ will create a fossil fuel fee collected at the first point of sale in the state and paid by the company transporting the...
Jonathan Scott talks to EPI about taking on utilities in solar film “Power Trip”
"Entrenched utility interests are attempting to maintain their death grip on our energy sources, and they will try to squeeze out anyone who interferes with their profitability."
Replacing coal with more coal: how Arizona Public Service’s Four Corners coal plant hurt customers, but earned investors profits
[…] Units 4 and 5 at the coal power plant Four Corners. Docket No. E-01345A-10-0474. The first warning: no other utility is investing in coal In May 2011, Sierra Club...
EEI used anti-clean energy campaigns as role models in political boot camp for utility execs
EEI's boot camp held up two companies as case studies - FirstEnergy and APS - despite both having become paragons of utility corruption.
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance PACs raked in millions from gas industry megadonors Karen Buchwald Wright and Thomas Rastin
[…] website. Wright and Rastin contributed $2.15 million to the Trump Victory fund and pro-Trump America First Action between 2016 and 2020 Wright and Rastin made a dozen contributions totaling...
AEP gave campaign cash to HB 6 repeal committee members
[…] that impact the company, particularly during election cycles.” The new Ohio House speaker Bob Cubb first announced plans to form the select committee on August 31, about a month...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Again Appoints Ellen Nowak To PSC
[…] Roberts’ position at the regulatory agency overseeing public utilities and serve through 2023. Nowak was first appointed to the PSC in 2011 and was named Chairperson in March 2015. ...
Electric utilities working with oil and gas companies on ‘advocacy’ efforts to counter environmentalists
[…] anti-pipeline and anti-fossil fuel movements in states along the Eastern Seaboard. During President Barack Obama’s first term, the American Petroleum Institute (API) held “Energy Citizens” rallies against climate change...
Arizona’s Energy Efficiency Program Attacked
[…] Governor Mike Pence allowed the state’s energy efficiency program to be repealed. He was the first governor in the country to repeal an energy efficiency program. Then in June,...