Category: Front Groups
New Hampshire Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Republican-controlled New Hampshire State Legislature has introduced multiple pieces of legislation to repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), gut the state’s renewable energy standard, and allow utility companies...
Michigan Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
In early 2015, Michigan Democrats presented a plan that doubles the state’s RES to 20% by 2022. In the announcement, State Senator Hoon-Yung Hopgood, the vice chairman of the Senate...
Maryland Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
Neil C. Parrott, a Maryland State Legislator and member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), introduced a bill to repeal the state’s Energy Efficiency Resource Standard, which requires utilities...
American Legislative Exchange CouncilHarvard Electricity Policy GroupNational Black Chamber of CommercePartnership for Affordable Clean EnergySolar
Louisiana Net Metering Attacked
The Louisiana legislature approved a bill to significantly reduce state tax credits available for homeowners and solar leasing companies that install solar energy systems and put restrictions on the financing of solar systems...
Kansas Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Kansas legislature passed a bill to repeal the state’s renewable energy standard in May 2015. The bill was soon signed by Governor Sam Brownback. But while the bill eliminated the state’s...
The Secret Network of Fossil Fuel & Utility Backed Groups Working to Stop Clean Energy
Energy & Policy Institute's new report exposes the strategies, front groups, and people used by the fossil fuel and utility corporations to attack clean energy policies.
Attacks on Renewable Energy Policies in 2015
Front groups, fossil fuel interests, and utility companies attacked net metering and renewable energy standards in states across the country in 2015, in an effort to delay the growth of...
Are Utility Companies Changing Their Strategy To Fight Obama Power Plan?
In a letter sent to President Obama this week, Indiana Governor Mike Pence said that the State of Indiana “will not comply” with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan...