Category: Front Groups
Utilities, Koch groups back Sununu’s veto of net metering bill in New Hampshire
Updated on September 11, 2018. Former New Hampshire House speaker Bill O’Brien, now a lobbyist for the Edison Electric Institute, and the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity will host an...
Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity and Heartland Institute Climate Denier Join Arizona Public Service’s Anti-Clean Energy Campaign
As do politicians and organizations that have received thousands of dollars from the utility
Alliance for Wise Energy DecisionsDonald TrumpInstitute for Energy ResearchMurray EnergyPeabody EnergyWind
Trump misfires on windmills, coal in upstate New York
President Trump attacked subsidies for “windmills” this week while in upstate New York, but didn’t mention his multi-billion dollar plan to bail out the coal industry, which has backed some...
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...
Utility-funded Harvard group has given tens of thousands of dollars in airfare, luxury hotels and meals to Arizona utility commissioners
An APS lobbyist suggested that AZ Commissioner Boyd Dunn join the group, whose director has testified directly on APS' behalf in front of the Commission.
Fossil fuel and utility interests target Richard Cordray and Mike DeWine with campaign cash in Ohio governor’s race
Republican Mike DeWine continues to raise the most money from fossil fuel and utility interests in Ohio’s race for governor, but Democrat Richard Cordray has also received campaign contributions from...
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...
Opponents of the Wind Catcher project have ties to fossil fuel interests, Hawthorn Group
The Wind Catcher project, a plan to build one of the nation’s largest wind farms, is starting to move forward despite attacks from front groups with ties to fossil fuel...
Tom Stacy: A top anti-wind activist who got paid by a fossil fuel funded group
Tom Stacy once staked the credibility of his Ohio-based anti-wind power group on a claim that they had received “zero dollars and zero cents” from the energy industry, but that...
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization with an operating budget of $4 to $6 million a year. The organization’s website says that it “enjoys the...