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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
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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
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
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New York Times: Rooftop Solar Dims Under Pressure From Utility Lobbyists
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UtilityDive: Report: Power customers’ ‘forced’ to fund EEI political activities
Texas Monthly: What Will Rick Perry’s Delayed Energy Grid Study Say?
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ClimateWire: Staff wary but ready to work with Pruitt amid new email dump
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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
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