A new Maine bill, LD 1949 would place limits on the costs utilities can charge their customers for the legal and consulting ...

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

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 ...

The Petra Nova carbon capture project has stopped operating because low oil prices have made it uneconomic to sell carbon dioxide to boost oil drilling operations. As the only coal carbon capture ...

Gas and electric utility front groups have spent over $2.4 million over the past 4 years on social media advertisements, many of which include targeted messaging to mislead customers on critical ...

Entergy has fiercely opposed action to combat climate change, including threatening to sue the City of New Orleans for what advocates termed a “resilient renewable portfolio standard”, or R-RPS. The R ...

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 ...

The rapid emergence of solar energy has caused investor-owned utility companies and their trade association, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), to create a strategic campaign to disrupt the growth ...

A 500 megawatt solar project in Spotsylvania County, Virginia has drawn attacks from climate skeptics, fossil fuel interests, and right-wing news outlets. The Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center, ...

Download our entire report (.pdf) here. Click to jump to the utility case studies. In the fall of 2017, a parade of paid actors, pretending to be concerned residents, lined up to offer public comments ...