Results for: first energy

EPA’s Clean Power Plan Opponents Led By Just A Few Power Companies

[…] nation’s largest electric utilities have quietly funded this special interest group’s attacks on the EPA’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants. Power Companies Leading the Attack Allison...

/ September 27, 2016

Petition for FTC Investigation of Electric Utility Abuses

[…] commence an Article 6(b) investigation of the electric utility industry’s abusive practices that impede renewable energy competition and harm consumer protection. The Energy and Policy Institute is a convening...

Fossil fuel money lurks behind anti-offshore wind power political ads in New Jersey 

[…] expenditures it makes.  In its latest Form 8872 report to the IRS, which covered the first six months of 2023, the RSLC reported receiving contributions totaling the following amounts...

/ October 23, 2023

Blocking renewable energy is a top state legislative priority for network of pro-fossil fuels think tanks

[…] include fossil fuel interests. The network also includes associate groups like the Donald Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute and multiple organizations backed by Charles Koch, such as Americans for...

/ March 6, 2024

The Empowerment Alliance

[…] since its launch in 2019, regularly attacks renewable energy sources like wind and solar. TEA’s first annual report to the IRS, which covered the year 2019, identified Bodney as...

/ November 14, 2022

APS Ramps Up Spending To $10 Million To Prevent Voters from Seeing Clean Energy Initiative on Ballot

[…] Total Spectrum Arizona and a vice president for Prosper. In 2013, APS admitted – after first denying – that it funneled money through a consulting firm to Prosper, which then...

/ July 17, 2018

APS attributes LA blackouts to renewable energy, echoing bogus claim that even the renewables critic who made it walked back

[…] Environmental Progress and an aggressive nuclear energy advocate and renewables critic, was one of the first to blame the Los Angeles outages on an over-reliance on renewable energy, initially...

/ July 10, 2018

Michigan Utility Executives and Employees Increasing Political Contributions

[…] and Policy Institute analysis of Michigan Secretary of State campaign data from 2007 through the first four months of 2018 identified at least $6.5 million in contributions from individual...

/ April 27, 2018
The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP)

Kiana Sears, Tom Forese defend themselves against their connections to APS while other candidates weigh-in on the state’s energy future

[…] representative, he was Chair of the House Environment Committee and sponsored environmental legislation, including Arizona’s first recycling law. He supports Prop 127, stating in the August debate, “I strongly...

/ August 23, 2018

Utility Industry Third-Parties Emerge in Utah to Defend Rocky Mountain Power’s Proposed Solar Fees

[…] amount of electricity, the utility would have no one to charge for those fixed costs. First, if the customer regularly uses less than the average amount of electricity, they...

/ August 25, 2017