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Researching attacks on clean energy by fossil fuel and utility interests for the Energy and Policy Institute.

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 29/09/2026
The chairman of the JobsOhio board, Josh Rubin, will be deposed Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in advance of a federal civil trial in which Akron-based FirstEnergy is the defendant, according to court records. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/29/h...
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Head of JobsOhio board to be deposed in federal civil lawsuit against FirstEnergy • Ohio Capital Journal
The head of Ohio's controversial economic development authority will be deposed in a suit over one of the biggest scandals in state history.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A Michigan group funded by petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch wants DTE to continue operating a coal plant that buys petroleum coke from Koch Carbon until 2040. The utility expects its plan to close the plant by 2032 will save customers $1.4 billion energyandpolicy.org/man-who-kill...
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‘Man who killed offshore wind’ now pushing fossil fuels and nuclear for Koch-funded Mackinac Center in Michigan
David Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and ...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
'Man who killed offshore wind' now fighting solar farms and pushing fossil fuels and nuclear with a Michigan think tank funded by petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch's Stand Together Trust and Americans for Prosperity energyandpolicy.org/man-who-kill...
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‘Man who killed offshore wind’ now pushing fossil fuels and nuclear for Koch-funded Mackinac Center in Michigan
David Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and ...
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Ohio Fair Courts Alliance @ohfaircourts.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ex-FirstEnergy executives reindicted in Ohio in $60 million corruption scheme after first trial ended in a hung jury earlier this year. By: Julie Carr Smyth abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
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Ex-FirstEnergy executives reindicted in Ohio in $60 million corruption scheme
Two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions in the state’s long-running $60 million bribery scandal ended in mistrial earlier this year have been reindicted
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
FirstEnergy seeks rate increase that could boost customer bills nearly $180 per year www.cleveland.com/open/2026/05...
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FirstEnergy is asking to charge customers more while also seeking permission to take longer to restore power after outages
FirstEnergy has asked Ohio regulators for a increase that could boost average residential customer bills by about $100 more next year — and nearly $180 more per year within three years.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Amy Acton wants to restore Ohio’s renewable energy and energy efficiency standards for electric utilities, which were repealed by Ohio’s bribery-tainted House Bill 6. Vivek Ramaswamy mocks wind turbines, and hawks for coal and gas energyandpolicy.org/ohio-utiliti...
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Six Ohio utilities contributed $2 million to DGA and RGA as Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy campaigned on lowering energy bills
Six of Ohio’s largest investor-owned electric and gas utilities contributed more than $2 million to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association since January of last year...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Recommend reading Nathaniel Rich’s opus, “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change,” for more on Rafe Pomerance’s life www.nytimes.com/interactive/... and us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (Published 2018)
We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
At the 2023 trial of Larry Householder, an FBI agent described how one uncharged Householder associate, Brooke Bodney, received $575K to fundraise for Householder's political operation. RGA continued to pay Bodney for "Finance Support Services" after the trial energyandpolicy.org/ohio-utiliti...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Vivek Ramaswamy said he would “clean house” while discussing the FirstEnergy bribery scandal at a recent town hall. A Ramaswamy Super PAC paid $1.6+ million to the Greyjoy Group, the consulting firm of Brooke Bodney, who raised money for Larry Householder energyandpolicy.org/ohio-utiliti...
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Six Ohio utilities contributed $2 million to DGA and RGA as Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy campaigned on lowering energy bills
Six of Ohio’s largest investor-owned electric and gas utilities contributed more than $2 million to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association since January of last year...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Six of Ohio's largest electric + gas utilities contributed $2+ million to the Democratic and Republican Governors Associations since January of last year, as Amy Acton and Vivek Ramswamy campaigned on lowering energy bills for Ohioans if elected as governor energyandpolicy.org/ohio-utiliti...
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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“David Pomerantz, executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute, a nonprofit energy watchdog organization, contends that a NextEra-Dominion deal would hurt utility customers and give one company outsize influence in the utility business.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/b...
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NextEra Energy Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Dominion, Creating a Utility Giant
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
As Coal Rebounds, More Toxic Mercury Is in the Air www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/c...
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As Coal Rebounds, More Toxic Mercury Is in the Air
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fringe anti-winders + fossil fuel industry-backed groups have been attacking the Department of Defense Siting Clearinghouse that reviews wind power projects for years energyandpolicy.org/fort-drum-wi... Tucker Carlson echoed these attacks in 2018 energyandpolicy.org/6758-2-tucke...
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Who's behind overblown claims about Fort Drum and wind farms?
Fort Drum is just the latest military base to become the subject of overblown claims by wind power opponents with ties to fossil fuel interests.
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Ohio Citizen Action @ohiocitizen.org · 04/05/2026
BREAKING NEWS! 💥 The Richland County commissioner who voted to ban wind and solar emailed "Mission accomplished" to a fossil fuel-linked consultant right after the vote. Richland County votes Tuesday on whether to overturn the ban. @energyandpolicy.org bit.ly/4ulLyDZ
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A Richland County Commissioner emailed a political consultant that he would “not be surprised if there is a cross burning in my future” after voting to ban wind + solar farms at a meeting packed with residents of the Ohio county who opposed the ban energyandpolicy.org/emails-revea...
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Emails reveal Richland County commissioner's 'cross burning' comments about residents who opposed ban on wind and solar farms in Ohio county
Richland County Commissioner Darrell Banks emailed a GOP political consultant that he would “not be surprised if there is a cross burning in my future” shortly after voting last summer to ban wind and...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 27/04/2026
The historic criminal trial of two former FirstEnergy executives ended with a deadlocked jury and mistrial. Now, they’re set to stand trial for a second time on the same state criminal charges related to Ohio’s House Bill 6 utility corruption scandal.
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What to expect as Ohio utility corruption trial heads for a do-over • Ohio Capital Journal
The historic criminal trial of two former FirstEnergy executives ended with a deadlocked jury and mistrial. Now, they’re set to stand trial for a second time on the same state criminal charges…
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Supreme Court decision to take a hard pass on former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s appeal of his conviction for racketeering in a scheme involving $60 million in bribes paid by FirstEnergy is a huge win for democracy. Backstory: www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/m...
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‘Every Politician Has Got to Have Somebody That’s the Hit Man’ (Published 2024)
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Majority Strategies, a GOP firm paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year by a gas industry group, lurks behind the Richland Farmland Preservation PAC that's fighting a voter referendum aimed at overturning an Ohio county's ban on new wind + solar farms www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... 🛢️👨‍🌾💰
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K.M. Kowalski @kmkowalski.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Ohio's Richland County voters are deciding whether to reject a wind and solar ban. Organizations linked to pro-gas interests have given money to keep it in place. @canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social @cleantechfacts.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
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Fossil fuel promoters tied to campaign to keep Ohio county renewable…
Richland County voters are deciding whether to reject a wind and solar ban. Organizations linked to pro-gas interests have given money to keep it in place.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y 👏
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Investor-owned electric and gas utilities paid their CEOs $626 million in 2025, an @energyandpolicy.org analysis of annual corporate filings found. energyandpolicy.org/utility-ceo-...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Trump says gas prices may remain high through November midterm election 🛢️💸https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-says-us-start-blockading-strait-hormuz-2026-04-12/
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Trump says gas prices may remain high through November midterm election
Trump's comments came after ​weeks of asserting that the spike in prices is a short-term phenomenon.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The treasurer for a new PAC formed to fight a local voter referendum aimed at overturning one county's ban on new wind + solar farms appears to be a Virginia-based political operative who is also the treasurer for a methane gas industry Super PAC www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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This Ohio county put a ban on wind and solar. Will voters reverse it?
Richland County blocked large-scale renewables in most townships. Voters now have a rare opportunity to overturn that policy at the ballot box.
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Marianne Lavelle @mlavelle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The Trump rollback of federal climate policy has made state battles more key for the fossil fuel industry. Enter "Natural Allies," an industry group in Pennsylvania that sell its pro-gas message to Democrats. By @kiley.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1104202...
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Gas Industry Front Group Targets Democrats in Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News
The industry group pays politicians to convince voters that natural gas is the “most affordable and reliable energy source.”
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PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: Natural Gas Industry Front Group-- Natural Allies For A Clean Energy Future-- Targets Democrats In Pennsylvania insideclimatenews.org/news/1104202...
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Gas Industry Front Group Targets Democrats in Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News
The industry group pays politicians to convince voters that natural gas is the “most affordable and reliable energy source.”
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
At a time when affordability concerns + rising energy costs are foremost on the minds of consumers, AEP reports that total compensation for its CEO Bill Fehrman could reach $36.6M for 2025, his first full year on the job www.bizjournals.com/columbus/new...
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AEP CEO's compensation could hit $36.6M, topping region's highest-paid public company leader - Columbus Business First
AEP CEO Bill Fehrman’s total compensation in his first full year totaled nearly $11 million more than Central Ohio’s highest-paid leader at a public company.
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Miriam Wasser @miriamwasser.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
When your utility asks state regulators to let them raise rates, they often hire expensive consultants and outside lawyers to help them make their case. Then you, the ratepayer, foot the bill. www.wbur.org/news/2026/04... @wbur.org #energysky
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When utilities ask to raise rates, customers pay the legal fees. A bill in Mass. would change that
Lawmakers are considering legislation that would prohibit utilities from passing on rate case expenses to their customers. Instead, the utility would foot the bill, taking the money out of its shareho...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/04/2026
One year into his second term, Trump has installed political appointees across the federal government. Join us April 8 for a walkthrough from our reporters on navigating our database of appointees’ financial disclosures & potential conflicts of interest. Submit a question:
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ProPublica Event: How to Use Our News App of Disclosures From Political Appointees
Learn to navigate ProPublica's database of Trump appointees' financial disclosures and potential conflicts of interest.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“Most people thought they were guilty,” says juror who served on hung jury in state criminal trial of FirstEnergy’s former CEO and top lobbyist www.wkyc.com/article/news...
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Juror: Majority believed guilt in deadlocked trial of ex-FirstEnergy executives tied to HB 6 scandal
'Everyone was disappointed that we didn't come to a verdict,' juror Mark Baughman said after the announcement.
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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🚨 The EPA just proposed to weaken limits on emissions of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas used to sterilize medical devices. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
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E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on a Cancer-Causing Gas
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Sue Sturgis @suesturgis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If you buy your electricity from an investor-owned utility, and you're curious about how much of your electric bill goes straight to profit, we did the math for you. energyandpolicy.org/utilityprofi...
Screenshot of EPI profit calculator titled, "How Much do Utilities Profit from Your Electric Bill?"
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Silvio Marcacci @silviomarcacci.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
How much profit is your utility making off you? Electricity costs are soaring - this tool from @energyandpolicy.org shows how much extra your utility charges per month. Nationally, electric utilities took ~15% of your bill for profit last year. energyandpolicy.org/utilityprofi...
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How Much Do Utilities Profit from Your Electric Bill?
See how much of your monthly electric bill goes to your utility's profits. An interactive tool from the Energy and Policy Institute.
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Energy and Policy Institute @energyandpolicy.org · 12/03/2026
🚨: Ever wonder how your utility bill is calculated or why it feels like it keeps rising year after year? Our new report, “Paying for Their Profits: How Ratepayers Foot the Bill for Soaring Utility Profits,” has answers. energyandpolicy.org/utility-prof...
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Paying for Their Profits: How Ratepayers Foot the Bill for Soaring Utility Profits
New report finds utility companies have made billions of dollars in profit since 2021 and utility profit margins are climbing higher.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New @energyandpolicy.org analysis finds 110 investor-owned electric utilities raked in $200 billion in profits from customers in 2021-2025, and that number is expected to grow as more utilities file their financial reports for 2025 energyandpolicy.org/utility-prof...
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Corey Johnson @coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Since last year, I and Al Shaw & @bxroberts.org have investigated the linkages between Trump appointees and the industries they oversee. Today we published a searchable database containing approximately 3,200 financial disclosure forms of roughly 1500 officials. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/03/2026
President Trump ousts Kristi Noem as Homeland Security chief and names Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin as her replacement cnn.it/4ubHabn
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Trump planned to attend a political fundraiser for his MAGA Inc. Super PAC after launching war with Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u... via @nytimes.com
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Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Trump’s repeal of the EPA’s science-based endangerment finding for harmful greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change checks off Item #2 on the “Action Plan” of a coal industry donor… who died in 2020 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In 2009, Donald Trump called on @barackobama.bsky.social to act now to prevent “catastrophic” climate change in a full page ad in the @nytimes.com static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf... What changed? Trump became beholden to political donors in the fossil fuel industry energyandpolicy.org/donald-trump...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Trump’s attempts to undo the science-based endangerment finding for greenhouse gases emissions that cause climate change is just an extension of the fossil fuel industry’s decades long war on the EPA’s authority to protect the public from climate change www.ucs.org/resources/wh...
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Who's Fighting the Clean Power Plan and EPA Action on Climate Change?
Major fossil fuel companies and special interest groups have worked for years to block efforts to reduce carbon pollution. They continue to do so today.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
FOIAed emails show two employees - Travis Fisher + Joshua Loucks - from the Cato Institute, a group funded by petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, transferred to DOE and worked on Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s climate denial report for the Trump administration.
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The Blade @toledonews.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
OPINION: "Ohio can begin atonement through enforced reliability standards with equipment upgrades necessary to meet those standards funded by FirstEnergy shareholders."
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Editorial: FirstEnergy must be reliable
FirstEnergy wants the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to relax reliability standards to give them more time to fix the problem when there’s a power ...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Mike DeWine too. FirstEnergy secretly paid $3.5 million to groups like Freedom Frontier + State Solutions that backed DeWine + Husted during the 2018 elections. The duo helped FirstEnergy secure a since repealed $1 billion public bailout via the bribery-tainted HB 6 www.cleveland.com/open/2024/04...
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
U.S. Senator Jon Husted is named on an amended witness list for defendants former FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones and lobbyist Michael Dowling filed ahead of their state criminal trial later this month www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Amended witness list for former FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones and lobbyist Michael Dowling in state criminal case in Ohio January 2025
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Grid operator PJM tells court that the extended delay of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project halted by Trump "will cause irreparable harm to the 67 million Americans served by PJM" www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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PJM amicus brief supporting Virginia offshore wind project halted by Trump January 2025
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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Environmental Protection Agency is going to stop considering the economic benefits of reducing asthma, heart disease and premature deaths as it repeals limits on air pollutants like mercury, soot and smog, according to reports: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c... 1/
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Trump is the like the boy who cried “Wolf!” using national security as a false pretense to attack domestic offshore wind power. Judges are not buying this B.S.
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Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
FirstEnergy says Ohio customers will receive $65.61 in bill credits over 3 months ($21.87/month) due to a settlement resolving the @PUCOhio investigations of the utility’s corruption BUT a recent rate change will dilute the actual savings for customs www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Trump moves to pull the US from bedrock climate treaty, UN IPCC and other int'l orgs & UN agencies. In doing so, the US becomes the only country to withdraw from this particular climate agreement dating back to 1992 (UNFCCC). www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/c...
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Trump moves to pull US out of bedrock global climate treaty, becoming first country to do so | CNN
The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock treaty that underpins international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies.
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