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CenterPoint Energy Hinges Future on Gas Expansion Despite Net-Zero Pledge

CenterPoint Energy billed itself as an industry leader when it pledged in September to reach net-zero emissions for its operations by 2035, but the investor-owned utility is planning a $1.7...

/ November 29, 2021

Dominion Energy-funded legislators push bill to boost the utility’s profits

[…] Saslaw (D), who has received at least $660,508 in donations from Dominion since he was first elected to the Senate in 1980, according to the Virginia Public Access Project....

/ February 17, 2023

Dominion Energy

[…] help Republicans; Utility PACs also favor GOP Warren Buffett’s Methane Emissions Purchase From Dominion Energy FirstEnergy scandal is latest example of utility corruption, deceit Dominion Energy net-zero goal undercut...

/ June 11, 2021

Message to Dems: Natural Gas Won’t Save the Climate

[…] a key tool in an effort to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Five models that integrate energy, economy, and climate systems were used in the study, which concluded that Earth’s...

/ October 23, 2014

Southern Company’s Kemper Scandal and Why Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Will Never Work

[…] New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, and Mississippi. Several of these involved evacuations of oil workers, first responders, and residents. Residents had to be moved to safety after a 2007...

/ July 12, 2016

Press Release: Florida Utilities Pour $3.5 Million More Into Anti-Solar Amendment 1

Florida Power & Light now the biggest bankroller of a ballot campaign in Florida history; Duke Energy second

/ October 31, 2016

The Real Cost Shift: Utilities Force Customers to Subsidize Attacks on Rooftop Solar

[…] have recently come under heavy fire from EEI and its industry funders. In 2015, the Energy and Policy Institute and Washington Post exposed EEI’s profit-driven plan to stifle the...

/ November 4, 2016

Chris Sununu gets more campaign money from Eversource executives

[…] a new campaign finance report filed with the Secretary of State on Wednesday. They were first reported by the website NHnotforsale.com, which is run by Sheridan Brown, a local...

/ November 2, 2018
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Dominion Energy net-zero goal undercut by pipeline expansion, “renewable natural gas” offset scheme

[…] questions about how quickly it intends to decarbonize. Last year, the company committed to its first-ever carbon emissions target, an 80% reduction by 2050 and a 55% reduction by...

/ February 13, 2020

Virginia Lawmaker Coordinated Support for Mountain Valley Pipeline With Project’s Lobbyist

A Virginia state lawmaker coordinated with an energy lobbyist to support a controversial gas pipeline, the Energy and Policy Institute has found. Delegate Les Adams, a Republican representing Henry and...

/ December 3, 2020