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Law firm with Matrix connections conducted Southern Company’s internal investigation
[…] if there is a finding of “any legal wrongdoing,” after NextEra’s internal investigation was completed. FirstEnergy signed a deferred prosecution agreement and paid a $230 million fine for its...
Ohio bill would bar utilities from charging customers for politics
[…] to prevent utilities from secretly spending huge sums of money on politics, a response to FirstEnergy’s spending $60 million in dark money as part of a bribery scheme that...
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
What’s next for solar in Florida after the Amendment 1 results?
[…] ‘negate’ the efforts of rooftop solar supporters. JMI’s team also includes James Taylor, a renewable energy naysayer for the climate change denying Heartland Institute. Consumers for Smart Solar, the...
California’s newest legislators have first chance to cozy up to Big Oil on Sunday night
[…] no such pledge on behalf of its candidates. All the newly elected freshmen have a first initial opportunity to prove that their loyalties do not lie with Big Oil by skipping...
Arizona Commissioner To APS: Why Invest In So Much Gas?
[…] Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin asked monopoly utility APS why it plans to invest in so much natural gas, and so little solar energy and energy storage, over the next...
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...
New DOE Chief of Staff, Brian McCormack, Played Critical Role in EEI’s Rooftop Solar Campaign
Brian McCormack, most recently of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), will become Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s chief of staff, reports confirmed yesterday. Previously, McCormack was EEI’s vice president of political and...
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.
Poll: Americans support net metering and solar, despite utilities’ attacks
[…] survey during the spring of 2017 and found: A majority of Americans (76%) support net energy metering (NEM), a policy that allows small-scale producers of renewable energy (e.g., through...