Results for: first energy
Gas industry dark money group’s influence seen in Ohio budget bill
[…] was the only bill that TEA lobbyist J. Robert Blazer reported lobbying on during the first four months of this year. Last week, Cleveland.com’s Jake Zuckerman reported on “little-noticed...
ALEC’s Most Wanted: Exposing a front group for fossil fuel interests (and other corporations)
[…] she said. The staffer — whose organization had developed talking points claiming to support the First Amendment, which protects a free and vibrant press — added: “Because you’re going...
PNM, Edison Electric Institute lead deceptive attack on rooftop solar in New Mexico
This piece was first published as an op-ed column in the Santa Fe New Mexican on February 20, 2017. Rooftop solar power offers New Mexicans lower electric bills, cleaner air...
Climate denier attacks electric vehicles… for not doing enough to slow down climate change
[…] climate change is happening. Electric vehicles are (obviously) better for the environment than gasoline engines First, let’s dispense with the actual thesis of Lesser’s argument. Yes, it is true...
Price Tag For Plant Vogtle Jumps Higher, Total Project Now at $27.3 Billion
[…] desire to leave its contract, citing the project’s poor economic performance. In a bombshell letter, first reported by Nate Monroe at the Florida Times-Union, JEA interim CEO Aaron Zahn...
Justin Olson, Arizona utility regulator, is an executive of Turning Point USA, group whose political arm sponsored rally preceding attack on Capitol
[…] to fight for this president.” In a statement released after the Energy and Policy Institute first published this article, Olson said: “The Energy and Policy Institute incorrectly reported this...
Heartland Institute
[…] a member of the executive committee of the State Policy Network. In 2017, the Heartland Institute’s America First Energy Conference celebrated the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back key U.S. climate...
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
[…] the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel estimated would cost consumers as much as $1.8 billion. Columbus Business First reported on how AEP provided form letters for local governments and business associations...
DeWine raked in campaign money from AEP after the utility revealed a subpoena from the SEC
[…] 6, the same Ohio law at the center of the federal criminal investigation that forced FirstEnergy to admit to paying millions of dollars in bribes to state officials. While...
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Utilities Knew: Documenting Electric Utilities’ Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception on Climate Change From 1968-2017
[…] carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The Energy and Policy Institute’s new report provides a first look into the electric utility industry’s nearly 50-year long relationship with climate science,...