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FOIA documents reveal that industry demands were directly reflected in bogus DOE coal bailout plans
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UtilitySecrets.org, a new site from EPI and Center for Media and Democracy
Florida Utilities Pour $3.5 Million More Into Anti-Solar Amendment 1
Utility-funded PAC caught attempting more “political jiu-jitsu”
Special Interests Behind Anti-Solar Ballot Initiative Consumers for Smart Solar
Clean Power Plan Published – Here Is The Utility Industry’s Strategy To Overturn It
Ohio Energy Study Committee Relied Upon Flawed Testimony
Fossil Fuel-Funded ALEC Behind Attack Colorado Renewable Energy Standard
Beacon Hill Institute EPA Attack Funded Through Richard Berman Front Group
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Think Progress: Murray Energy backs opposition to offshore Ohio wind farm, 8/6/2018
APS spends $11 million to keep 50% renewables measure off ballot, 7/18/18
Small electric systems challenge Alabama Power’s profits, request refunds, 6/28/18
Arkansas Business: Following the fueling opposition to Wind Catcher, 6/18/18
Think Progress: Kochs invest in company set to benefit from coal and nuclear bailout, 6/12/2018
Beaver County Times: Report: Energy lobbyist paid $1 million in bailout campaign, 6/6/2018
Greentech Media: The lobbying bills attached to FirstEnergy’s coal and nuclear emergency action, 6/5/2018
RTO Insider: More questions than answers for FERC, RTOs, 6/5/2018
Midwest Energy News: Michigan law gives activists new venue for holding utilities to pledges, 5/30/2018
DeSmog Blog: Koch-Backed and Anti-Renewable Energy Groups Wooing Interior Department Official, 5/23/2018
Miami New Times: Florida’s Energy Companies Are Spending More Money Than Ever on Lobbying, 5/17/2018
KAUF: Wind Catcher opposition may have fossil fuel ties, 5/17/2018
NOLA Times-Picayune: Entergy opponents: ‘New Orleans residents were deprived of their rights’, 5/15/2018
Think Progress: New Orleans electric utility confirms people were paid to support its power plant, 5/11/2018
Utility Dive: Entergy says it had no knowledge of paid support for New Orleans gas plant, 5/11/2018
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia PSC election war chests helped by Georgia Power, affiliates, 5/9/2018
PV Magazine: New Orleans: Actors paid to oppose solar and wind, push for power plant, 5/7/2018
Chattanooga Times Free Press: TVA audit: Jet purchase not ‘cost effective’, 3/30/2018
Utility Dive: Indiana governor taps Republican lawmaker for Utility Regulatory Commission, 3/27/2018
Midwest Energy News: Ohio lawmaker circulates study on theoretical turbine accidents, 3/23/2018
PV Magazine: Murray Energy’s war on clean energy in Ohio, 3/10/2018
Associated Press: Company Spends $2M Lobbying for Atlantic Pipeline, 3/8/2018
WABE Atlanta: Watchdog Group: Ga. Public Service Commissioner Too ‘Cozy’ With Ga. Power, 3/6/2018
Utility Dive: New Arizona renewable ballot initiative could spark utility opposition, 2/15/2018
The State: Dominion hires former SC Gov. Hodges as lobbyist as SCANA buyout heats up, 1/5/2018
Utility Dive: Demand charges or ‘efficiency rates’? EEI wants a word change, 12/20/2017
Esquire: The Power Companies Are Ripping You Off, 12/15/2017
Vox: A moment of truth arrives for Rick Perry’s widely hated coal bailout, 12/11/2017
Bloomberg: Koch-Backed Business Group Splinters in Climate-Change Dispute, 12/8/2017
ThinkProgress: Koch-funded network targets New Hampshire’s renewable energy policies, 12/4/2017
Midwest Energy News: Secrecy surrounds pro-coal group eyeing Ohio wind cases, 12/4/2017
Hartford Courant: Critics Fault Eversource for proposing business fees be charged to ratepayers, 11/30//2017
Bloomberg: Koch-Funded Group Prods Trump’s EPA to Say Climate Change Not a Risk, 11/15/2017
ThinkProgress: Environmentalists just gained a new enemy in the fight against natural gas pipelines, 11/6/2017
Vox: Rick Perry’s plan to subsidize coal and nuclear plants is bonkers, 10/4/2017
Miami New Times: Why Didn’t FPL Do More to Prepare for Irma?, 9/14/2017
Inside Climate News: Perry’s Grid Study Calls for Easing Pollution Rules on Power Plants, 8/24/2017
ThinkProgress: Top utilities are spending a lot of money to elect Republican governors, 8/10/2017
The Guardian: Utilities companies won’t let you sell your own solar power. Why not?, 8/1/2017
Scientific American: Watchdog Group: U.S. Electric Industry Knew of Climate Threat Decades Ago
InsideClimate News: Like Exxon, Utilities Knew about Climate Change Risks Decades Ago
New York Times: Rooftop Solar Dims Under Pressure From Utility Lobbyists
Midwest Energy News: Analysis: Ratepayers foot the bill for utilities’ push against rooftop solar
ThinkProgress: This is how the Kochs’ anti-renewable agenda becomes White House policy
New York Times: The Deep Industry Ties of Trump’s Deregulation Teams
UtilityDive: Report: Power customers’ ‘forced’ to fund EEI political activities
Texas Monthly: What Will Rick Perry’s Delayed Energy Grid Study Say?
Miami Herald: FPL drafted portions of bill that puts tough requirements on rooftop solar companies
Washington Post: The Trump administration has a new energy buzzword
New York Times: Trump got nearly $1 million in energy-efficiency subsidies
ClimateWire: Staff wary but ready to work with Pruitt amid new email dump
Huffington Post: Scott Pruitt goes after critics, EPA in his first speech to the agency
Climate Crocks: Chamber of Commerce – “Hell to pay” if U.S. backtracks on climate
Santa Fe New Mexican: Reader View: A deceptive attack on rooftop solar
ClimateWire: Clean energy left out of new White House energy plan
PV-Magazine: Solar disappears down the memory hole on White House website
ClimateWire: Exxon lobbied against a $10 carbon tax in Mass.
TechCrunch: Trump’s manufacturing council includes Elon Musk, Michael Dell and Mark Fields
Gizmodo: A Brief Chat With Elon Musk About Climate Change, Rex Tillerson, and Donald Trump
Buzzfeed: Trump’s SEC Nominee Told Firms To Admit Climate Change Risks
MarketWatch: Trump’s SEC pick pushed clients to say more about climate-change risks
Climate Crocks: Trump appointee warned of climate impacts
Inside Climate News: Rex Tillerson’s record on climate change – Reality vs rhetoric
Vox: Ohio clean energy standards are toast unless Gov. John Kasich steps in to save them
Grist: 5 lessons activists can learn from Florida’s successful ballot fight to defend solar
UtilityDive: Florida’s Amendment 1 defeat shows why solar won’t be stopped, Trump or no Trump
Tampa Bay Times: Power surge: Utilities dump another $3.5 million into Amedment 1
Tampa Bay Times: After leaked recording, solar amendment campaign scrubs its web pages
Miami Herald: Insider reveals deceptive strategy behind Florida’s solar amendment
Fox 4 Fort Myers, FL: Experts say solar amendment is misleading, not pro-solar
ABC 7 Sarasota, FL: Solar Amendment Summary
Grist: Why is this liberal congresswoman spreading anti-solar arguments?
Washington Post: Vote delayed on Hogan nominee accused of feeding information to governor’s staff
The Baltimore Sun: Gov. Hogan’s nominee to utility regulator faces Senate grilling over emails
NUVO: The fight over Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act
The Guardian: Nevada’s solar workers and customers reel as new rules ‘shut down’ industry
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting: Big Energy Pours $1.9 Million Into Anti-Solar Group
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