Results for: entergy

Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities

Download full report Entergy Entergy is an electric utility company serving customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy’s executive compensation consists of three elements: base salary, annual incentive awards,...

/ September 22, 2020

Entergy misled New Orleans City Council, rewarded with $210 million gas plant

Entergy misled New Orleans City Council about the viability of alternatives such as energy efficiency and battery storage to its controversial gas plant, even after being required to perform […]

/ June 6, 2018

Entergy leads the charge to re-elect Lambert Boissiere III, Louisiana utility commissioner in runoff election with major climate and energy consequences

[…] challenge from Davante Lewis, who has highlighted Boissiere’s reliance on campaign contributions from utilities like Entergy, which the Commission regulates.  Boissiere has received almost three-fourths of his campaign contributions...

/ November 23, 2022
Entergy confirms actors were paid to support New Orleans power plant

Hawthorn Group, PR firm behind paid actors scandal in New Orleans, has long record of being paid by utilities to lie to the public

Entergy hired the Hawthorn Group to create "grassroots support" for its proposed natural gas power plant

/ May 10, 2018
2020 Mississippi Public Service Commission

Southern Company Attempts to Block Public Input in Resource Planning; Entergy Joins in Mississippi

Southern Company and Entergy have been objecting to participation in regulatory proceedings such as integrated resource plans and certificates of public need.

/ February 27, 2020

What The Public Learned From The Utility Industry In 2018

[…] deposition that she was pressured to lie and alter information given to state regulators. 2. Entergy deceived the public when confronted with questions about paid actors Central Conclusion of...

/ December 13, 2018
Utility Corruption

FirstEnergy scandal is latest example of utility corruption, deceit

[…] would have been mandated by the ballot initiative that it spent to defeat in 2018.  Entergy’s paid actor scandal In March 2017, the New Orleans City Council voted to...

/ July 23, 2020

Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits

[…] to the New Orleans City Council in support of a new gas-burning power plant that Entergy wanted to build there.  But the paid actors weren’t the only people testifying...

/ December 10, 2019

Hawthorn Group

[…] Hawthorn Group between 1996 and 2004, according to annual SEC reports from that time period.  Entergy’s Paid Actor Scandal In 2018, Hawthorn was once again caught manufacturing fake grassroots...

/ April 9, 2024

The Empowerment Alliance

[…] lawmakers in Ohio, as first reported by the Washington Post. American Gas Association documents identified Entergy as a supporter of The Empowerment Alliance Documents from a 2020 meeting of...

/ November 14, 2022