Results for: first energy

Four major Ohio utilities shut off customers’ electricity 200,000 times during COVID-19 pandemic

AEP, FirstEnergy, Duke Energy, and DP&L disconnected Ohio customers who couldn't pay their bills during the Covid-19 pandemic.

/ July 9, 2021

Koch and Trump Factions Plan to Erase Climate Policy Gains

[…] the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, despite his campaign pledge to “scrap” the EPA’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants. Ayotte and her Democratic opponent Governor...

/ November 21, 2016

Source for Tucker Carlson anti-wind power story has ties to fossil fuel funded groups

[…] , FoxNews)!” Droz revealed. “This is a VERY big deal, as this would be the first time this issue has received such national attention,” he said. Droz had hoped...

/ August 13, 2018
Utility Corruption

FERC issues Notice of Inquiry to understand how it can protect customers from subsidizing trade association political activities

[…] of the regulated entities themselves.” Commissioner Christie said, “I respectfully disagree with any suggestion that First Amendment rights are implicated, much less threatened, by this inquiry … Nothing keeps...

/ December 20, 2021
The Kemper "clean coal" power plant.

Southern Company Says Kemper Not Viable as Coal Plant, Blames the PSC

[…] is written by Dan Zegart, and cross-posted from the Climate Investigations Center In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power...

/ February 27, 2017

Decades before Harvey and Irma, electric utilities knew climate change could fuel more powerful storms and still funded denial

[…] on Climate Change From 1968-2017. Thirty years ago, the study by ICF Incorporated represented “…a first attempt at analyzing the potential impacts of climate change on individual electric utilities.”...

/ September 14, 2017

Eversource becomes first utility to exit from gas industry’s largest trade association, citing decarbonization efforts in unprecedented move

STATEMENT: Eversource becomes first utility to exit from gas industry’s largest trade association, citing decarbonization efforts in unprecedented move. The decision comes amid the American Gas Association’s ongoing campaign against...

/ August 8, 2023

Several Utilities Donate to Trump Inauguration Committee 

[…] that does not act in a manner consistent with these values.” Trump has spent his first months back in the White House  signing executive orders that judges have overturned...

/ April 25, 2025

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...

/ June 8, 2017

Video shows FERC nominee Bernard McNamee’s bias against renewable energy

[…] Foundation (TPPF) and sponsored by Koch Industries tells a different story. Utility Dive was the first to report on the video, and published a short clip. The Energy and...

/ November 20, 2018