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...

/ July 28, 2015

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...

/ February 18, 2016

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,...

/ December 10, 2019

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...

/ July 3, 2023

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...

/ December 4, 2023

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...

/ May 10, 2013

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...

/ February 21, 2017
A man charges his electric vehicle

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...

/ May 21, 2018

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...

/ August 23, 2018
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Justin Olson

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...

/ January 12, 2021