Joe Smyth Results for: first energy
Coal and water conflicts in the American West
[…] western states will be forced to reduce water diversions from the Colorado River for the first time this year. With several coal plants scheduled to close over the next...
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
[…] individuals who made public comments voiced their support for the company and its IRP. The first speaker at the public hearing was Jane Garcia of Latin Americans for Social...
Lignite Energy Council shouldn’t be funded by utility ratepayers, Minnesota Attorney General argues
[…] on promoting North Dakota’s coal industry. There are two issues with the LEC dues. The first is that LEC is an organization that supports North Dakota’s $18 billion lignite...
New Michigan front group with connections to DTE Energy launches ahead of the elections
[…] registered in May as a new entity associated with a 501(c)(4) organization called Michigan Energy First, which is led by a DTE vice president and lobbyist. The new entity...
Livermore Lab carbon capture campaign funded by utility company front group
[…] the “Clean and Sustainable Energy Fund” received in 2020, $3 million, came from “Michigan Energy First,” another 501(c)(4) group run by the same DTE Energy executives, which has historically...
Heartland Institute
[…] Energy Portfolio Standard, and Governor Earl Tomblin signed the bill in February. While this new law makes West Virginia the first state to fully repeal a renewable energy standard, the West Virginia statute did not actually require renewable...
The 2014 Midterm Election Results: Implications for Energy and Environment Policies
[…] will debate at least three energy issues as a result of this change in power. First, there are now 61 senators in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline. Approving...
Daniel Simmons: New head of EERE worked for groups that tried to “eliminate” it
[…] of greenhouse transferable credits as a tool for environmental policy or regulation. ALEC wasn’t the first stop in Simmons’ career. Before that he worked at the Mercatus Center and...
FOIAs reveal FirstEnergy meeting with Rick Perry, 30+ corporate jet flights to D.C. since Trump’s inauguration
New details about FirstEnergy’s lobbying of the Trump administration and corporate airplane flights to Washington, D.C., can be found in documents obtained via FOIAs filed with the Department of Energy...
Attacks on Clean Power Plan Based on Flawed Reports
[…] legal authority; the Clean Power Plan will raise costs and prove to be “deeply unpopular.” First, Tribe’s legal analysis of the Clean Power Plan has yet to be determined...