Results for: first energy

Utility Corruption

Connecticut passes bill prohibiting utilities from charging ratepayers for political activities

[…] against climate action. Connecticut’s largest investor-owned utility, Eversource, spent over $305,000 on lobbying in the first quarter of 2023, making it the third-largest spender on lobbying in the state...

/ May 26, 2023

Utilities Fiddle While Arizona Burns

[…] continuing to rely on the fossil fuels that are causing the climate crisis in the first place. Map of average temperatures in U.S., 2000 - 2015 vs. long-term average...

/ July 28, 2017

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...

/ April 29, 2020

Value of Solar Versus Fossil Fuels

[…] Versus Fossil Fuels series was written by Nancy LaPlaca, Matt Kasper, and Gabe Elsner. The first report analyzes recent decisions by regulators and reports from Wall Street firms outlining...

/ August 6, 2014

Southwest Gas increases its political contributions in Nevada ahead of the 2022 election

[…] Clark County Board of Commissioners – which includes Las Vegas –  developed and adopted its first Sustainability and Climate Action Plan, All-In Clark County. The plan includes zero emissions...

/ November 4, 2022

AEP’s former CEO met with Larry Householder about plan to weaken Ohio’s term limits, according to prosecution witness

[…] in a racketeering conspiracy that involved $60 million in bribes paid by another utility company, FirstEnergy, in exchange for Householder’s championship of House Bill 6. The 2019 Ohio law...

/ March 17, 2023

FOIA Documents Reveal Tennessee Valley Authority’s Role in the Utility Air Regulatory Group

[…] EPI with regards to the Nonattainment Committee show the same scheme for 2015 through the first half of 2018.  Nonattainment Committee legal fees and expenses Nonattainment Committee technical fees...

/ April 6, 2021
Dalton Utilities Vogtle Nuclear Plant

Despite Spiraling Costs and Its Own Bungling, Southern Company Wants to Complete Vogtle Plant

[…] ever-rising costs. Given Toshiba’s recent series of financial scandals, default cannot be ruled out.  The first payment of $300 million is due in October. In fact, customers of Georgia Power,...

/ August 30, 2017

Edison Electric Institute Caught Secretly Working To Influence FTC Solar Workshop

[…] going solar. All of this presents an existential threat to the utility industry, something EEI  first recognized at private meetings in 2012 when it warned that the booming distributed solar economy...

/ June 10, 2016

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

[…] fossil fuel assets, and to discourage them from investing capital in those projects in the first place. AEP does not have incentives that directly reward its executives for decreased...

/ September 22, 2020