Results for: first energy
Coal, Gas Lobbyists Behind PA Officials’ Letters Against RGGI, Emails Show
[…] DEP and IRRC. Dando, meanwhile, recently joined a new lobbying firm, Allegheny Strategy Partners, whose first client is a coal company, Rosebud Mining. The firm also hired former Republican...
Tucson Electric Power filings show millions of dollars to trade and chamber groups possibly borne by customers
[…] from FERC Commissioner Mark Christie in 2021: “Nothing keeps the monopoly from spending money on First Amendment protected speech, including lobbying legislators and related public-relations activities, but its investors...
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
[…] Policy’s media strategy to advocate for conservative issues: “Mackinac has a two-part media strategy. The first, more traditional flank involves putting out a steady stream of reports designed to...
American Electric Power-backed dark money group spent over $1.5 million in 2020
[…] in connection with nearly $60 million in bribe payments secretly paid by another Ohio utility, FirstEnergy, involved in the passage of H.B. 6. Householder was also indicted last year...
UARG, the sequel? “Clean Air Act Monitoring Service” and “Climate Legal Group” appear at McGuireWoods
[…] Nonattainment Committee, spent over $3.4 million on legal fees and expenses between 2015 and the first half of 2018. This committee spent just $48,000 on technical fees during that...
Alabama Commissioner Chip Beeker’s Catfish Farm Loans $100k to Campaign After Receiving PPP Forgiveness
[…] $120,883 in farm subsidies since 1995, 80% of which came in the years since his first election in 2014, according to the EWG farm subsidy database. Beeker has been...
Florida Supreme Court orders Florida Public Service Commission to do its job
[…] top of the already approved rate increase. Last week’s Supreme Court Order is not the first time the PSC has effectively been asked to show its work and further...
Southern Company’s Lobbying Disclosures Obscure State-Level Information from Investors, Public
[…] goal, Southern Company is actively lobbying Congress for “environmental regulatory relief, generally,” according to its first quarter 2020 federal lobbying disclosure. Southern Relies on Limited State Filings to Obscure...
Southern Company’s “Low to No Carbon” Pledge Misleads Investors, Public
[…] that they “can’t get in front of their regulators.” That rationale ignores two key points: First, while climate change may remain controversial for some Republican public service commissioners in...
FirstEnergy Ohio Bailout – Bad for Ratepayers, Bad for Ohio
Stop the FirstEnergy Coal Bailout! Sign the Petition! FirstEnergy is attempting to push a $3 billion dollar bailout through the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) in a sweetheart deal for...