Category: American Electric Power
More Generation Now dark money traced to AEP in Ohio corruption scandal
A Columbus group funded solely by AEP paid just over a half-million dollars last year to Generation Now, the group indicted this summer on federal racketeering charges alongside former Ohio...
AEP gave campaign cash to HB 6 repeal committee members
American Electric Power (AEP) made campaign contributions to seven Ohio state representatives after they joined a new select committee tasked with repealing and replacing House Bill 6, the energy law...
Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities
Download full report American Electric Power American Electric Power (AEP) is one of the nation’s largest investor-owned utilities, with customers in eleven states, including Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio,...
Bill Seitz’s FirstEnergy bailout bill is one target of a subpoena
Records show Rep. Bill Seitz, the third-ranking Republican in the Ohio House, worked with FirstEnergy to draft a nuclear power plant bailout bill that’s now the subject of a federal...
AEP contributed to dark money group that gave money to Generation Now
Update: AEP has acknowledged funding Empowering Ohio's Economy, a dark money organization that contributed to Generation Now
ExxonMobil attacks wind power, carbon tax in Texas
ExxonMobil, Kinder Morgan and Occidental Petroleum are part of a coalition of companies that opposed a utility’s plan to provide 309 megawatts of new wind energy to customers in Texas....
American Electric Power’s goal: 100% renewable energy?
Executives at American Electric Power say the major electric utility has “aspirational” goals of achieving 100% renewable energy and zero carbon emissions, but its current plans for the future include...
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
Download full report American Electric Power American Electric Power (AEP) is one of the nation’s largest investor-owned utilities, with 5 million customers in eleven states, including Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana,...
Southern Company and American Electric Power pledge to reduce emissions, but still support coal lobby group
Investors are calling on major companies to align their climate lobbying efforts with the Paris Agreement
Utilities gave $320K to Ohio House members who voted for bailout bill
Members of the Ohio House who voted in favor of a bill to bail out uncompetitive coal and nuclear power plants received over $320,000 in campaign money from four utilities...