My colleagues and I have spent a decade tracking NextEra's sprawling political machine, and how it has used that machine to thwart competitors (including clean ones!), at ratepayers' expense. Essential reading for the NEE/D mega-monopoly merger plans. energyandpolicy.org/nextera-domi...

“When Xavier Becerra was state attorney general, his office pushed the state Supreme Court to artificially inflate a Black man’s IQ in order to execute him.” theintercept.com/2026/05/19/x...

Pepco wants Maryland customers to pay 23% more for electric rates, even as profits rise and Exelon projects higher earnings and dividends. The case is now drawing scrutiny over ROE, affordability, and Pepco’s role in supportive testimony. energyandpolicy.org/pepco-maryla...

the results of saturday’s primary elections in louisiana are in, and these same three candidates came out on top. stephanie hilferty and john young in district 1 are headed to a june 27 runoff, while john atkins, who won in district 5, will face democrat james green in november.

“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...

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social profiles Adam Hamawy, a combat surgeon who saved Tammy Duckworth's life and did multiple stints in Gaza, who is running for Congress in New Jersey. prospect.org/2026/04/30/p...

California’s big three utilities have donated over *$153K* to Xavier Becerra over the course of his career. No other gubernatorial candidates have received that level of campaign funding. energyandpolicy.org/becerra-150k...

The 10 highest-paid utility company executives raked in more than $220 million last year. Meanwhile, utility companies asked for a record $31 billion in rate increases, affecting 81 million customers across the country. Yes: utility CEOs are raking it in while millions struggle to pay their bills.

Utility companies shut off Americans’ power 13.4 million times and gas 1.7 million times in 2024, a federal report said — a newly collected number that consumer advocates say signals a surprisingly high rate of extreme financial distress.

exelon (pepco's parent company) paid their ceo $15.6 million in 2025, a nearly $1 million dollar increase from 2024, despite not meeting their customer satisfaction performance threshold. read more about who is profiting off your utility bill in our latest report: energyandpolicy.org/utility-ceo-...

Electricity bills are rising, customers are struggling, but guess who is doing just fine?

Federal energy regulators voted yesterday to keep accounting rules in place that allow monopoly utilities to charge customers for trade association activities - rejecting calls from a diverse coalition to protect customers from these expenses. energyandpolicy.org/ferc-rejecti...

In a new analysis that is surprising to...? Two incumbent candidates for the AL PSC received the majority of their donations from three PACs that get a sizable amount of their money from utility-related interests. Read it here: energyandpolicy.org/utility-link...

The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old

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...

Lina Khan is running a think tank & training center on economic policy at Columbia. Stephanie Cutter, top Obama & Biden aide, became a policy adviser for Kalshi. The former proves that government officials cashing out (like the latter) is not preordained. From @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:

went long on the new Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and Sideshow albums in relation to how they subvert hip-hop's chosen one motif--while still outrapping the competition--for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social www.hearingthings.co/earl-sweatsh...

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...

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…

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

What a stunning demonstration of how data centre development is directly and materially boosting fossil fuels. After ferocious lobbying the Carney government caved and killed off environmental rules to allow fossil gas power plants to be built for data centres: thewalrus.ca/after-intens...

Why is Third Way is spending so much time and energy attacking Hasan Piker? Because they have absolutely no compelling vision for Democratic governance after Trump.

@mynameisheno.bsky.social and @oddiseemusic.bsky.social announce collaborative album 'From Takoma With Love'; hear "MIMS"

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce legislation today to block the construction of new data centers until lawmakers enact regulations on AI, laying down a marker on the populist left as Washington confronts public skepticism of the new technology.

"For most Americans, when they pay their electric bill every month, a big chunk of that bill – probably bigger than they think – is going to their utility’s corporate profits," @davidpomerantz.bsky.social told @silviomarcacci.bsky.social: thepowerline.substack.com/p/power-bill... 🔌💡

New from @jeva.bsky.social: The Salt River Project utility board has started early voting, but what happens when voting rights are decided by land acreage, Turning Point enters the chat, and data centers could throw the balance of power on its head? heatmap.news/energy/salt-...

New York hip-hop experimentalist Elucid: ‘I like the harmony of the city. Everybody’s got a little solo’

I started [gulp] a substack. It’s called Utility Watch, and will feature @energyandpolicy.org's research, with opinions and analysis from me. My first post is on utility profits, and why the politicians increasingly going after them are smart to do so. utilitywatch.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Last week, I wrote about the DC Court of Appeals' ruling that tossed out the approval of the latest Pepco rate hikes. On Friday, a motion was filed to the DC Public Service Commission's (PSC) to restore rates to what they were before this rate hike, & issue a refund to customers.

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

This week NARUC held its winter meeting — where regulators, commissioners and - let’s be honest, a lot of utility lobbyists - come together to talk shop. But as you may have seen in an exposé by @harpers.bsky.social, there are also some extracurricular things that happen, too.

The Salt River Project (an AZ utility) has a land ownership-based voting system to elect to their board. Public records show that a landowner converted almost 240 acres from an LLC to a trust juuust in time to vote all of those acres in the 2024 election. https://bit.ly/4qykvTL

If you're a D.C. resident, be aware: Paying your taxes this year could be total chaos. Why? Republicans in Congress are again trying to mess with the city's local budget and finances, something they know little about: 51st.news/republican-b...

I went long on the latest round of Hip-Hop Is Dead discourse--no more superstars, rap not charting that one time, blog-era stars hogging space/attention--and how, despite all that, rap continues to thrive in the margins for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social

Got a whiff of some fishy Michigan campaign finance reports so we dug in and stumbled upon a huge reporting loophole that prevents the public from seeing exactly how, and how much, cash flows from DTE Energy and Consumers Energy to lawmakers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Americans are paying record-high utility bills, and it’s not just inflation or extreme weather. A new @harpers.bsky.social investigation by @nickbowlin.bsky.social lays out how utilities, regulators, and Wall Street work together to lock in rising costs for customers. harpers.org/archive/2026...

ICE has tear gassed, arrested, shot, and disappeared Chicagoans as part of Trump’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” Residents are fighting back against the federal agents terrorizing their city. From Emma Janssen: trib.al/qxvL5rp

SIGNED! 🥳🥳🥳💪💪💪 A massive victory for holding monopoly utilities accountable to their customers, and for lowering Californian utility bills. Thank you to @governor.ca.gov, @asmmarcberman.bsky.social, @senmcnerney.bsky.social, @earthjustice.org, The Utility Reform Network for all your leadership!

BlackRock parent company Global Infrastructure seeks to purchase a Minnesota utilities company and Walz appointees are under pressure to sign off on the $6 billion proposal. James Baratta reports: trib.al/AJVMfQF

A favorite of A$AP Rocky and Earl Sweatshirt, El Cousteau is a product of the District in every way. On Dirty Harry 2, he unpacks his upbringing with a nuance absent from national debate.

Former Trump adviser and industry-backed risk analyst Louis Anthony Cox Jr, who has worked with the tobacco and fossil fuel industry to sow doubt on the health dangers of pollutants, is now turning to AI to amplify his perspective. More from @dharna.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

As the death toll climbs in the wake of the Texas floods, lots of finger-pointing re: the NWS' forecasts and warnings. The bottom line: An agency reeling from cuts still issued timely outlooks & warnings. Lots of ?s though (1/2) www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/c...

🚨New reporting from @thelever.bsky.social pulls back the curtain on a back door Signal chat between the Democratic insiders and crypto lobbyists pushing the GENIUS Act: Dems are backing the bill while privately acknowledging it benefits Trump's corrupt self enrichment.

Dan’s Cafe isn’t named for its owner, but Clinnie “Dickie” Dickens ran the dive for 60 years before passing in February. @barredindc.bsky.social‬ chronicles the history of one of D.C.’s most storied bars.

Uruguay’s late former President Pepe Mujica did so much for Uruguay, including lifting thousands out of poverty during his tenure and playing a critical role in the country’s record-breaking renewable energy transition @thenation.com @thenewpress.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/worl...