Tag: Donald Trump
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,...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Will the U.S. Chamber continue to fight the EPA’s endangerment finding in 2018?
Update January 10, 2018: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce confirmed today it is no longer trying to overturn the EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions, but top U.S. Chamber officials...
FirstEnergy floods FERC with ghostwritten comments seeking bailouts for its coal and nuclear power plants
FirstEnergy is behind hundreds of pages of largely ghostwritten comments seeking bailouts for the utility’s failing coal and nuclear power plants that were submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...