Tag: Southern Company
As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs’ Pay Spiked Last Year
While many Americans saw their energy bills go up substantially in the past year, investor-owned electric and gas utilities and the country’s largest publicly owned utility paid their CEOs over...
Utilities, once represented by UARG, now part of the ‘Electric Generators for a Sensible Transition’ in their suit against the EPA
A new ad hoc coalition of electric utilities has sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its newly proposed rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal and new...
Hawthorn Group
The Hawthorn Group is a public affairs and corporate communications firm that has frequently worked with utilities and been central to a number of scandals involving the industry. Hawthorn describes...
Southeastern Utilities Block Transmission Necessary for Decarbonization
Decarbonizing the economy will require a significant expansion of interstate and interregional transmission, but investor-owned utilities in the South, such as Southern Company and Entergy, have spent years undermining efforts...
Law firm with Matrix connections conducted Southern Company’s internal investigation
A law firm that conducted Southern Company’s internal investigation into reports that a political consulting firm used by a Southern subsidiary directed private surveillance of Southern’s CEO – possibly with...
Utility CEOs received $3.2 billion in executive compensation from 2017 – 2022
Investor-owned electric and gas utilities paid their CEOs $3.2 billion between 2017 and 2022, according to corporate data reviewed by the Energy and Policy Institute. CEOs for the 57 companies...
Southern Company’s updated greenhouse gas bonus still pays executives as company invests in fossil fuels
Southern faces investor challenges on Scope 3 emissions
America’s Power loses more member companies, deletes member list
Coal group deletes its members list after losing all investor-owned utilities and railroad members
Powerless in the United States: the third installment in the Powerless in the Pandemic series
Powerless in the United States: the third installment in the Powerless in the Pandemic series Utility companies have disconnected U.S. households more than 5.7 million times since 2020 while shelling out billions...
Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills
How policymakers can protect customers from being forced to fund utilities’ political machines