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Amid Connections to Ongoing Election Scandals, NextEra Pours Millions into Florida’s 2022 Election Cycle
[…] 2018 election cycle, according to reporting from the Miami Herald. The non-profit, called “Broken Promises,” first donated the funds to a political committee called Consumers for Energy Fairness. The...
Bombshell Votes at Southern Company Annual Meeting for Cleaner Energy, Against CEO Fanning
Southern Company shareholders asserted their disapproval of chief executive officer Tom Fanning, and nearly half the shareholders' votes were cast in favor of steering the company toward climate-friendly energy policies.
American Gas Association Wants States To Submit Implementation Plans, Not Ignore Clean Power Plan
[…] states from cooperating with the EPA. Aliya Haq at the Natural Resources Defense Council writes, The first ALEC bill aims to effectively repeal a state’s authority to work with EPA...
Atlantic Offshore Drilling Plans Continue: Fossil Fuel Front Groups Meet Privately With Federal Agencies
[…] contacted by The Capital Times. The Obama Administration’s 2017-2022 Offshore Drilling Timeline BOEM began the first step in 2017-2022 OCS leasing program by having a comment period, which began...
Southern Company’s Kemper Scandal and Why Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Will Never Work
[…] New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, and Mississippi. Several of these involved evacuations of oil workers, first responders, and residents. Residents had to be moved to safety after a 2007...
The other big loser in Virginia’s elections was Dominion Energy
At least 14 candidates who pledged not to accept money from Virginia's monopoly utility, Dominion Energy, won seats in a surprise wave election for Democrats.
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
[…] to bail out coal and nuclear power plants. “The employees and corporate donations of the First Energy Nuclear Power Plant and the Bruce Mansfield Coal Generation Plant make up...
CenterPoint’s deceptive billing practices put customers at risk of disconnection
[…] hypothetical example that broadly tracks with the real-world customer complaint, CenterPoint divides a customer’s payment, first applying it to gas arrears, then to past-due balances owed for Home Service...
Bankruptcy judge questioned FirstEnergy Solutions’ law firm about a draft political contributions motion that was never filed
Bankruptcy court records show lawyers for FirstEnergy Solutions drafted, but never filed, a motion seeking a judge’s approval to make political contributions shortly before the company contributed $500,000 to the...
Legislation introduced by Rep. Kathy Castor instructs FERC to ban utilities from using ratepayer dollars for political activities
The “Ethics in Energy Act” also aims to increase transparency and add penalties for noncompliance