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FirstEnergy’s Wall Street investors lobbied for bailout bill in Ohio
A lobbyist for the FirstEnergy Solutions Bondholder Group helped organize a community meeting where the utility’s CEO revealed how a “Clean Air” bill designed to subsidize its nuclear plants in...
Mississippi Power Doubles Down on Uneconomic Coal Despite Southern Company’s “Low to No Carbon” Claim
[…] new federal coal ash regulation, commonly known as the coal combustion residual (CCR) rule, was first proposed by the Obama Administration in April 2015. The CCR rule as originally...
Feds reveal more secret pass-throughs for FirstEnergy money in Larry Householder racketeering case
[…] the racketeering case against ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder revealed that $400,000 secretly paid by FirstEnergy passed through two dark money groups, One Ohio United and Citizens for a...
Hawthorn Group, PR firm behind paid actors scandal in New Orleans, has long record of being paid by utilities to lie to the public
[…] the gas plant. Actors were paid $60 to appear, and $200 for “speaking roles,” as first reported by The Lens, a local newspaper. Entergy denied any prior knowledge of...
Coal lobby group drafted state utility commissioners’ letters to FERC
[…] coal lobby group’s template letter word-for-word. The Wyoming Public Service Commission Chairman’s letter customized the first paragraph, but the rest of the letter also copied the ACCCE template letter....
Dominion Energy spent record-breaking sum in Virginia election to bolster embattled Republicans and legislative allies
[…] Senate and House of Delegates, which secured Democratic party control of both chambers for the first time in more than 20 years. The Democratic Party of Virginia announced in...
Two Controversial Virginia Gas Plants Face Increasing Uncertainty, Documents Show
[…] 2,660 megawatts, aim to sell their generated electricity to the PJM Interconnection power market. C4GT first applied for a state permit in 2016, while Chickahominy Power followed suit a...
Dominion Energy rewards Virginia political allies with bipartisan, off-year campaign contributions in 2020
[…] in 2020 – one in January and one in July. Dominion’s PAC reports making the first of these in December 2019. Source: Virginia Department of Elections and Virginia Public...
Bankruptcy judge questioned FirstEnergy Solutions’ law firm about a draft political contributions motion that was never filed
Bankruptcy court records show lawyers for FirstEnergy Solutions drafted, but never filed, a motion seeking a judge’s approval to make political contributions shortly before the company contributed $500,000 to the...