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A newly-formed 501(c)4 nonprofit is behind efforts to pass a bill that would enact draconian siting requirements for new solar and wind generation, impose additional permit requirements for developers ...
Ohio’s largest utilities are opposing legislation that could help rein in scandal-tainted electric bill riders that have cost customers billions of dollars.
Utility customers in Connecticut saved millions of dollars thanks to accountability law prohibiting recovery of political expenses ...
Xcel Energy’s multi-year legal fight to charge Minnesota customers more for its executives’ pay is threatening to undermine state regulators’ efforts to remove such costs from utility bills and ...
Utilities seek to charge customers for lobbying, corporate advertising, and unnecessary expenses that do not benefit customers.
Gas industry megadonor couple Karen Buchwald Wright and Thomas Rastin have contributed millions to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance PACs.
FirstEnergy is proposing to refund $13.6 million to Pennsylvania customers as part of its response to a criminal investigation in Ohio and related audits.
The Florida Supreme Court ordered last week that the Florida Public Service Commission must justify its approval of Florida Power and Light’s $4.868 billion rate increase settlement. In a 4-2 decision ...
An environmental assessment published by the Department of Energy found that Project Tundra, a major coal carbon capture project proposed in North Dakota, would emit more greenhouse gases than it ...
Connecticut utility United Illuminating, a subsidiary of Avangrid, is behind a political campaign targeting a draft decision by state regulators rejecting its requested rate hike. UI has mobilized its ...
Xcel Energy is lobbying for an extension of the Minnesota pipeline rider, also known as the Gas Utility Infrastructure Cost.
America’s monopoly electric and gas utilities are using the money that they collect from customers’ monthly bills to fund political machines that push legislation, curry favor with regulators, and ...