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September 29, 2023
Molly Taft
Will Mainers Take Their Power Into Their Own Hands?
Maine voters could set a model for other areas of the country to follow with a rare hostile takeover of the electric powers that be.
December 13, 2022
Dorothy Slater
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Incentive Structure Keeps Residents Hooked on Fossil Fuels
The federally owned utility company could be leading the clean energy transition. Instead, it’s poisoning the countryside.
December 6, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Your Huge Winter Heating Bill Could Be Funding Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Households preparing for a 30 percent price hike may not know their dollars are going to trade associations that oppose the very changes that could reduce their bills in future.
August 17, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Big Energy Bill? Don’t Pay!
Skyrocketing gas and electric bills in the UK have inspired plans for a million-person payment boycott later this year. Will it work?
May 19, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Why Your Utility Company Sucks
Companies that run the electrical grid have long been accused of anti-competitive and abusive practices. Now a massive coalition of 235 organizations is pressuring the Federal Trade Commission to investigate them.
March 16, 2022
Dorothy Slater
This Federally Owned Public Utility Company Is Run by a Former Fossil Fuel Executive Who Makes $10 Million
The Tennessee Valley Authority could be leading the country toward renewables. Instead, it gets huge chunks of its power generation from coal and methane.
April 7, 2021
Nick Martin
Duke Energy’s Green Facade Isn’t Fooling People Anymore
Cities and towns in North Carolina are demanding better from a utility company with a dreadful environmental record.
September 15, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Biden Adviser Who Gives Climate Activists Nightmares
Ernest Moniz served as Obama’s secretary of energy. His ties to the fossil fuel industry have only deepened since then. Will Biden give him his old job back?
September 19, 2019
Meaghan Winter
How Energy Companies Corrupt State Politics
Virginia's Dominion Energy gives generously to candidates to get what it wants. But a political revolt is brewing.
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