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TVA Documents Reveal New Details About How America’s Major Utilities Fight Clean Air Regulations. Over the last two years, an obscure group of utilities called the Power Generators Air Coalition (PGen) has quietly opposed numerous environmental protections proposed by the Biden administration, including rules...
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Reports from the Energy and Policy Institute. Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury lifestyle expenses, December 2024. Duke Energy Knew: Documenting the Utility’s Early Knowledge and Ongoing
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We need to power the economy with clean energy to address the climate crisis, and we have the tools to do that right now: renewable energy sources like wind and solar power are less expensive than fossil fuels; energy efficiency technologies save customers money and will hasten the transition to clean energy.
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The Energy and Policy Institute is a watchdog organization that exposes attacks on renewable energy and counters misinformation by fossil fuel and utility interests.
Powerless in the United States | Energy and Policy Institute
Powerless in the United States: the third installment in the Powerless in the Pandemic series. Utility companies have disconnected U.S. households more than 5.7 million times since 2020 while shelling out billions to shareholders and top executives, according to Powerless in the U.S., a new report from EPI, Center for Biological Diversity, and BailoutWatch.
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Nov 4, 2024 · Donald Trump and J.D. Vance PACs raked in millions from gas industry megadonors Karen Buchwald Wright and Thomas Rastin Ariel Corporation chairman and her spouse have also opposed new solar farms in Ohio Gas industry megadonor couple Karen Buchwald Wright and Thomas Rastin together contributed at least $2.4 million...
Fueling the Opposition - Energy and Policy Institute
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The Energy and Policy Institute (EPI) has been working for more than ten years to research and document how fossil fuel interests are fighting to block new wind and solar farms by spreading disinformation about clean energy to try to undermine the strong, bipartisan support for renewable energy that exists among the public.
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Dec 5, 2024 · For media inquiries, please contact [email protected]. Recent Media Coverage Detroit News: DTE Energy-linked nonprofit quietly gave $100,000 to House speaker fund amid outage anger, 12/17/2024 Sludge: Michigan Groups Urge Lawmakers […]
Who We Are - Energy and Policy Institute
Staff. Dave Anderson, Policy and Communications Manager. Dave Anderson is the Policy and Communications Manager for the Energy and Policy Institute.. Dave has been working at the nexus of clean energy and public policy since 2008. Prior to joining the Energy and Policy Institute, he was an outreach coordinator for the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Emissions goals show utilities continue to move slow | Energy and ...
Dec 1, 2020 · When Xcel Energy became the first major investor-owned utility two years ago to commit to going carbon-free by 2050, it also set a goal to reduce carbon emissions 80% by 2030 from a 2005 baseline in the eight states it serves. The utility is currently on a pathway that would reduce carbon emissions by an average of 5.91% per year from 2019 through 2030, according to …