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Coal lobby group drafted state utility commissioners’ letters to FERC
[…] coal lobby group’s template letter word-for-word. The Wyoming Public Service Commission Chairman’s letter customized the first paragraph, but the rest of the letter also copied the ACCCE template letter....
AEP contributed to dark money group that gave money to Generation Now
[…] charged in the federal criminal complaint that centered around a $61 million bribery scheme involving FirstEnergy. The group, called Empowering Ohio’s Economy, Inc., is a 501(c)(4) organization that paid...
Acme Equities: who is the hedge fund trying to buy a teetering New Mexico coal plant?
[…] solve the pesky problem that caused PNM to want to retire the plant in the first place: no one wants to buy the overpriced power. When asked about the...
Candidate for Florida Governorship Pledges To Stop Accepting Utility Contributions
[…] committees such as Associated Industries of Florida. On Sept. 27, nearly three weeks after Irma first struck Florida, campaign records show Duke Energy gave $55,000 to AIF’s political committee,...
Florida Power & Light drafted sections of “Florida Distributed Solar Equipment Consumer Protection Act”
[…] actors” in the solar industry. On March 21, when his bill came up for its first hearing before the House Energy & Utilities Subcommittee, Rodrigues filed an amendment that...
Under Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil lobbied against carbon tax bills
[…] Institute has discovered that ExxonMobil lobbied against two bills that sought to establish the nation’s first carbon tax in the state of Massachusetts. ExxonMobil lobbied against a revenue-neutral carbon...
Will the U.S. Chamber continue to fight the EPA’s endangerment finding in 2018?
[…] is backing the Trump administration’s effort to replace the Clean Power Plan, as E&E News first reported. The U.S. Chamber has also rolled out new energy policy priorities for...
FirstEnergy’s Wall Street investors lobbied for bailout bill in Ohio
A lobbyist for the FirstEnergy Solutions Bondholder Group helped organize a community meeting where the utility’s CEO revealed how a “Clean Air” bill designed to subsidize its nuclear plants in...
Feds reveal more secret pass-throughs for FirstEnergy money in Larry Householder racketeering case
[…] the racketeering case against ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder revealed that $400,000 secretly paid by FirstEnergy passed through two dark money groups, One Ohio United and Citizens for a...
Polluters’ Lesser Known Strategy To Fight EPA CO2 Rules
[…] science deniers and an advocate for the EPA to reopen its endangerment finding as a first step to blocking the EPA from limiting CO2 emissions in any fashion –...