A North Carolina bill barring utilities from charging customers for activities tangential to delivering energy has failed to ...

Federal agents arrested Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder, along with several lobbyists, on July 21 on charges that the group used $60 million of funds provided by the monopoly utility ...

A group of hundreds of major investors is urging electric utilities not to use offsets as part of their decarbonization efforts, and to minimize reliance on carbon capture because of its risks and ...

The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC,) which advocates, academics, and reporters have referred to as a “rubber stamp” and “lapdog” of the investor-owned utilities, has a history of approving ...

New technology has a long history of attracting small networks of people who believe that rapidly proliferating inventions are silently eroding people’s health. Electric light and railway travel were ...

Electric utilities that operate coal plants in the American West face growing water supply risks, as climate change fuels hotter and drier conditions. Burning coal to generate electricity consumes ...

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 ...

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 ...

The generation and transmission association that provides electricity to large swaths of the rural West and Upper Midwest is facing increasing pressure from its member cooperatives and lenders about ...

FirstEnergy improperly used money collected from customers in five states to pay for expenses connected to the ongoing corruption scandal in Ohio, the company has confirmed. The money was collected ...

Documents filed by Consumers Energy with the Michigan Public Service Commission show that the investor-owned utility has made over $43.5 million in political contributions to Citizens for Energizing ...