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Coal, Gas Lobbyists Behind PA Officials’ Letters Against RGGI, Emails Show
[…] DEP and IRRC. Dando, meanwhile, recently joined a new lobbying firm, Allegheny Strategy Partners, whose first client is a coal company, Rosebud Mining. The firm also hired former Republican...
Alabama Commissioner Chip Beeker’s Catfish Farm Loans $100k to Campaign After Receiving PPP Forgiveness
[…] $120,883 in farm subsidies since 1995, 80% of which came in the years since his first election in 2014, according to the EWG farm subsidy database. Beeker has been...
Dominion Bets Big on Establishment Candidates Northam, Gillespie in Virginia Gov Race
[…] West Virginia through Southern Virginia. The company gave $10,000 to the Northam campaign in the first quarter of 2017. One of its board members, Vicky A. Bailey, has given...
California Democrats who got big gifts from Oil Industry gave big gifts back
[…] the oil industry has showered those Democrats with campaign contributions, but our analysis is the first that systematically looks at the gifts that oil companies and their allies have...
Southern Company’s “Low to No Carbon” Pledge Misleads Investors, Public
[…] that they “can’t get in front of their regulators.” That rationale ignores two key points: First, while climate change may remain controversial for some Republican public service commissioners in...
American Electric Power-backed dark money group spent over $1.5 million in 2020
[…] in connection with nearly $60 million in bribe payments secretly paid by another Ohio utility, FirstEnergy, involved in the passage of H.B. 6. Householder was also indicted last year...
As Householder trial begins, EPI releases guide for policymakers to protect ratepayers from utility scandals
[…] acceptance of $60 million in bribes to his political organization, with the money originating from FirstEnergy before winding its way through a series of dark-money organizations. In return, FirstEnergy...
Southern Company’s Lobbying Disclosures Obscure State-Level Information from Investors, Public
[…] goal, Southern Company is actively lobbying Congress for “environmental regulatory relief, generally,” according to its first quarter 2020 federal lobbying disclosure. Southern Relies on Limited State Filings to Obscure...
Tucson Electric Power: Ignoring Water, Climate Change Risks
[…] is half-empty, and Lake Mead has shrunk to the lowest levels recorded since it was first filled in the 1930s. The City of Tucson’s Water Plan 2000-2050 shows the percentage...