Results for: first energy
Entergy Paid Actor Scandal Widens, Nonprofits Used to Support Gas Plant
[…] the gas plant. Entergy investigation still leaves big gaps of information Entergy claims it was first alerted to the potential that actors were paid when a “blog writer” contacted...
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...
Attacks on Clean Energy in Montana
[…] Senator Debby Barrett, would have included all existing hydropower in the state’s RES. Senator Barrett first introduced the bill in December 2012. Sen. Barrett received a $1584.31 scholarship from...
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...
Shelby Green
[…] in Washington, D.C., but previously resided in Tallahassee, FL, where she served as the area’s first Black woman Soil and Water Supervisor and a candidate for City Commission. Headshot...
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...