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Matrix, LLC is an opposition research and lobbying firm that has provided political consulting services to Alabama Power for decades. The Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) is also ...
Allison Kole General Counsel Allison Kole serves as general counsel to EPI. She also directs EPI’s FOIA Advocacy Project, which helps researchers who are facing obstacles to receiving public records ...
American Electric Power American Electric Power (AEP) is one of the nation’s largest investor-owned utilities, with customers in eleven states, including Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, ...
New England Ratepayers Association The New England Ratepayers Association (NERA) claims to be the “voice of families and businesses served by regulated utilities,” but its lobbying and regulatory ...
FirstEnergy’s March 2021 presentation to the PUC revealed that its utilities charged Pennsylvania customers for years of FirstEnergy payments to five outside firms. One of the firms, the ...
Financial analysts and government reports warn of drought risks to power plants Recent reports by Moody’s Investors Service and BlackRock have focused on the growing climate risks to electric ...
Seniors Across America advertised warnings against the “stealth solar tax” to promote FPL’s anti-rooftop solar legislation. Utility front groups spending thousands fighting against bans on fossil gas ...
A state utility regulator in Ohio acted “at the request or for the benefit” of FirstEnergy “as a consequence of receiving” a $4.3 million payment from the utility company shortly before their ...
Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL) introduced legislation last week that directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to prohibit utilities from recovering political expenses from ...
Utility front groups are organizations that appear independent but are established, controlled or funded by a gas or electric utility or trade association. These front groups advocate on behalf of ...
After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across ...
Read more about EEI’s campaign here or click on the images above to view the documents. Influence Regulators In 2012, the Edison Electric Institute outlined a plan to create a dialogue with regulators ...