Tag: Donald Trump

HBO’s ‘The Dark Money Game’ spotlights FirstEnergy’s corruption as Trump revives federal coal plant bailout the utility once lobbied for 

The premiere of HBO’s new documentary “The Dark Money Game” shines a spotlight on FirstEnergy’s bribes-for-bailouts scheme in Ohio just days after President Trump revived a failed push to use...

/ April 16, 2025

Chris Wright: Trump’s pick for Energy Secretary is a longtime member of Charles Koch’s political donor network

Chris Wright, the founder and CEO of the fracking services company Liberty Energy and Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Energy, co-authored a 2014 op-ed with his wife, Elizabeth, in...

/ January 14, 2025

Subpoenaed records detail FirstEnergy’s secret political spending to influence then-President Donald Trump 

How FirstEnergy, one of America’s most corrupt utilities, secretly spent millions of dollars as it pursued a multi-billion-dollar federal bailout for its coal and nuclear plants during Donald Trump’s presidency,...

/ October 9, 2024

Trump’s false claim about windmills, noise and cancer defended by Koch-backed blog

A blog post defending President Trump’s false claim that noise from windmills causes cancer has been published on MasterResource.org, a blog run by a think tank backed by the powerful...

/ April 17, 2019

Who’s behind Trump’s claim the Green New Deal will cost $100 trillion?

President Trump’s claim that the Green New Deal would cost $100 trillion can be traced back to the Manhattan Institute, a think tank backed by fossil fuel investor Paul Singer...

/ March 14, 2019

Indestructible coal: Will Trump bail out a fire-damaged coal plant?

President Trump keeps talking about “indestructible” coal, months after a fire damaged a coal power plant that FirstEnergy Solutions included in its request for a bailout from the Department of Energy. ...

/ August 22, 2018

Source for Tucker Carlson anti-wind power story has ties to fossil fuel funded groups

Updated on August 15, 2018, with new information about the Tucker Carlson anti-wind power story that has now been postponed. Updated on August 14, 2018, with a summary of President Trump’s remarks...

/ August 13, 2018

Documents reveal a lobbying blitz by FirstEnergy as Trump mulled bailouts for coal and nuclear power plants that could cost consumers billions

A new filing in the bankruptcy case for FirstEnergy Solutions details how lobbyists at Akin Gump, Washington, DC’s top-earning lobbying firm, spent hundreds of hours in April working on a renewed campaign...

/ June 1, 2018

Murray Energy’s war on clean energy in Ohio

Murray Energy lobbied on a bill to roll back renewable energy "mandates" in Ohio, while it fought for government intervention to bail out coal-fired power plants.

/ March 9, 2018

A Trump adviser’s emails shed light on a shadowy anti-clean energy network

Emails sent and received by Travis Fisher, an outgoing senior Trump administration official at the Department of Energy, shed light on a murky anti-clean energy network with ties to the...

/ February 22, 2018