Results for: first energy
Indiana Net Metering Attacked
During the first two months of 2015, anti-solar legislation, HB 1320, was gaining momentum. The legislative process culminated when a committee voted 9-4 on February 19 to advance the bill...
Gabe Elsner
[…] Prior to founding the Energy and Policy Institute, Elsner was the California Student Sustainability Coalition’s first statewide campaign director, helping to defeat Prop 23, an attempt to overturn California’s...
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
[…] utility’s role in those efforts from voters, policymakers, and regulators. In 2013, APS denied at first that it was funding conservative groups to run ads attacking rooftop solar companies,...
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...
Who’s who in former PUCO chairman Samuel Randazzo’s indictment?
[…] indicted former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chairman Samuel Randazzo on bribery and fraud charges. FirstEnergy is not named in the indictment, which was unsealed today, but the utility...
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...