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Hawthorn Group
[…] an astroturf group that served as the front for another utility to block a clean energy-related transmission line. Hawthorn employees collectively have decades of employment history with utilities including...
Are Utility Companies Changing Their Strategy To Fight Obama Power Plan?
[…] will not comply with the EPA. Indiana had joined Oklahoma and 12 other states, Peabody Energy, and the Utility Air Regulatory Group in the Murray Energy/West Virginia v. E.P.A....
Clean Power Plan Published – Here Is The Utility Industry’s Strategy To Overturn It
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2015 Contact: Matt Kasper, Energy & Policy Institute, (630) 908-9615, kasperm@energyandpolicy.org Update: The New York Times reports that American Electric Power intends to sue the administration over the...
C. Boyden Gray: Tobacco, Tea Party, and Dirty Energy
[…] Party powerhouse FreedomWorks Foundation. Gray is also a lobbyist for one of the worst coal corporations in America – FirstEnergy – and an outspoken critic of reforms that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and...
Does Dominion support using Thomas Jefferson’s name to spread climate denial?
The Energy and Policy Institute recently learned, thanks to Seth Heald at the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, that vice president and deputy general counsel for Dominion, David Shuford, has in his spare time penned...
Southern Company CEO and Edison Electric Institute Chairman Tom Fanning’s Climate Change Denial
[…] decades can be attributed to human activities,” and that the “burning of fossil fuels for energy is the single largest human driver of climate change.” In response to the...
Hawthorn Group, PR firm behind paid actors scandal in New Orleans, has long record of being paid by utilities to lie to the public
[…] the gas plant. Actors were paid $60 to appear, and $200 for “speaking roles,” as first reported by The Lens, a local newspaper. Entergy denied any prior knowledge of...
Democratic women’s group hosts event sponsored by APS
[…] state’s politics, despite the fact that the monopoly utility is working against values like clean energy growth and climate action. Emerge Arizona, a group whose mission is to increase...
Entergy misled New Orleans City Council, rewarded with $210 million gas plant
Entergy misled New Orleans City Council about the viability of alternatives such as energy efficiency and battery storage to its controversial gas plant, even after being required to perform specific...
APS uses teachers in ads against Prop 127, but has history of funding anti-public education organizations
[…] state’s voters to reject a ballot initiative that would increase the state’s use of renewable energy: it’s bad for teachers. In advertisements, yard signs and tweets, APS and its...