“The Trump administration’s directive to halt the development of offshore wind energy is illegal,” said Rob Bonta, the attorney general of California. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/c...

Trump aligned America First Policy Institute and American First Legal together received $25 million from the dark money portal Donors Trust @exposedbycmd.bsky.social www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/11/21/d...

Ticked Off: How the Trump Admin is Giving Your Money Away to Fossil Fuel Companies www.sierraclub.org/burningmoney

Can’t wait to hear what all the anti-offshore wind folks who align with Trump think of this new plan…

Scoop: Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) tells me in an interview this afternoon the major sticking point holding up permitting reform right now is Dems need language to halt Trump’s extra layers of extra screening on renewable energy. I broke the news of the screening. Thanks for reading, Congress.

Update: A spokesperson for the PUCO confirmed to @energyandpolicy.org that yesterday's order prevents FirstEnergy from recovering $108 million in shady "corporate overhead" expenses from customers of the company's Ohio utilities energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-...

FirstEnergy reassures Wall Street about its plan to file a new multi-year rate plan in Ohio in early 2026, after the @PUCOhio orders $250 million in new fines + customer refunds, and approves a net $34 million rate hike for FE's Ohio utilities www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

The Trump administration has forced the aging, costly polluting J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan to stay running for another 90-day stretch, citing an energy ​“emergency” that state utility regulators and regional grid operators say does not exist: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky

BREAKING: FirstEnergy hit with $250 MILLION in fines for bribing politicians in the HB6 scandal. $180M goes back to customers starting in December. We're finally getting money back from the HB6 scandal! ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ https://bit.ly/47Qi8FV

One of the stupidest things I had to witness up close this year at DOE was the full-on effort to throw money at defunct or dying coal assets, all because Trump made a bunch of economically illiterate promises on camera. Americans will pay a steep price for it. 🔌💡 heatmap.news/energy/coal-...

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

Your taxpayer money at work…

Trump’s Department of Energy is seeking applicants for $525 million in public funding for coal plants infrastructure-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx...

As it was in the midst of financing a $61 million bribery scheme, FirstEnergy also improperly claimed millions in construction expenses. Now the utility is asking Ohio regulators for permission to charge its customers for the $108 million in errors. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/r...

Ohioans: forward a copy of this article to your elected officials with a clear "HELL NO" message. We're NOT going to further reward corruption by footing the bill for it. Contact info in comments. Excellent journalism by @ohiocapitaljournal.com #Resist ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/r...

ALEC Pushes Power Grid “Stability” Bills to Favor Fossil Fuels Over Renewables www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/11/12/a... via @exposedbycmd.bsky.social

The Public Utility Commission of Ohio's choice to limit the scope of a key audit predictably led to info about FirstEnergy's potential misuse of money from Ohio ratepayers for lobbying that was known to the auditors being omitted from a public final audit report energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-...

Ex-Speaker Larry Householder is serving 20 years for taking bribes. Now the FirstEnergy execs accused of paying those bribes finally face trial. Chuck Jones and Mike Dowling's trial will take place in January and their 17 defense attorneys are fighting to keep evidence secret. https://bit.ly/4nHBlhq

Ohio had a plan for 25% renewable energy by 2025. We barely hit 5%. How did that happen? This WOSU series connects the dots: the secret budget amendments, the FirstEnergy bribes, the billions in lost investment. Understanding history is the 1st step to changing our future. https://bit.ly/4npf1co

FirstEnergy wants the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio’s approval to recover $108 million in “overhead costs” flagged in multiple audits by state and federal regulators from its Ohio customers energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-...

Reminder that in January, Trump world was so convinced their anti-clean energy policies could win in New Jersey that the Trumpy America First Policy Institute created a New Jersey chapter to advance Trump priorities like opposing offshore wind www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/ameri...

Huge wins for clean energy in Virginia and New Jersey tonight. The Trumpists attacked on electrical costs - and got clobbered. People didn’t like Trump’s braindead effort to take away clean, affordable energy. This ends any talk of retreat on clean energy.

PSE&G, New Jersey's largest electric and gas utility, is making money hand over fist off of ratepayers this year investor.pseg.com/investor-new... even as it funds Republican and Democratic groups that are trying to make political hay out of rising utility bills energyandpolicy.org/utility-bill...

Ahead of their criminal trial scheduled for January, former FirstEnergy executives ask court to prohibit certain witness testimony.

Former FirstEnergy executives Chuck Jones and Mike Dowling, accused of orchestrating one of the most extensive public corruption schemes in Ohio history, have been granted extraordinary privacy protections in their Summit County case.

Florida Power and Light needs that $10 billion rate increase to help cover Trump's ballroom. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Avangrid, the parent company of Maine's largest electric utility CMP, contributed $100K to the RSLC in May, not long after local media revealed the RSLC PAC as the top donor behind a ballot referendum that, if approved, will make it harder for many Mainers to vote energyandpolicy.org/money-behind...

Restore New Jersey’s election ads about rising electric utility bills are brought to you by millions of dollars from the Republican Governors Association, which has received tens of millions of dollars from the electric utility industry since 2008 energyandpolicy.org/utility-bill...

The Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association are both trying to make political hay out of rising electric bills in New Jersey’s race for governor. Both groups also received money from PSE&G, New Jersey’s largest electric + gas utility energyandpolicy.org/utility-bill...

With Merrimack Station shutting down in New Hampshire, there will no longer be coal burned in New England to power the grid.

ISO-NE just became the first multi-state ISO to phase out coal, nearly two and a half years ahead of schedule 🔌💡 short 🧵

FirstEnergy conducted internal investigations, found enough wrongdoing to fire executives facing criminal charges, but a court says they can hide the findings from shareholders and the public. https://bit.ly/46LSrWj

America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months. "Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026." Via @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... 🔌💡

It’s a good thing Texas installed so much reliable solar, wind, and battery capacity to shoulder the load in the event the state’s unreliable coal generation suffered a catastrophic failure. Because apparently it did. 🔌💡 ieefa.org/resources/ne...

Is Duke Energy Liable for Climate-Related Property Damage After Funding Denialist Campaigns? insideclimatenews.org/news/2609202...

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

A new Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission audit compliance report found FirstEnergy spent nearly $310 million on legal expenses and other costs related to corruption investigations and litigation between 2020 + 2024 www.puc.pa.gov/pcdocs/18962...

Utilities and fossil fuel industry support the Trump administration's proposed rollbacks of EPA limits on greenhouse gas emissions and mercury pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants energyandpolicy.org/utilities-ma...

Sierra Club's new “Dirty Truth” report finds major U.S. utilities have collectively hit five-year lows on switching from fossil fuels to clean energy fast enough to combat climate change. Instead, they're doubling down on fossil gas, despite the costs: www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... #energysky

Meet the New England anti-wind group aligning with Trump... https://go.ctcapitolreport.com/4pC2uor

New from @miriamwasser.bsky.social: A federal judge ruled on Monday that work can resume on Revolution Wind, a large and nearly complete offshore wind farm near Rhode Island. Construction on the project had been halted since Aug. 22, when the Trump administration issued a stop-work order.

Sneaky sneaky! Appalachian Power customers in West Virginia are overpaying for power from two out of state coal plants under a contract state utility regulators never approved www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...

Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

New testimony in an AEP case before the West Virginia PSC reveals Appalachian Power lost more running its three coal plants in 2024 and this year than it previously told state regulators, and the losses are forecast to continue into next year. wvpublic.org/story/energy...

🔥 UNBELIEVABLE: AEP is asking for ANOTHER $35 million OVEC coal bailout just weeks after Ohio lawmakers BANNED these subsidies! Ohio lawmakers listened to voters for once and ended the coal bailouts by passing HB 15. Now AEP is trying an end-run around the law we fought for. bit.ly/42ovvtB

Meanwhile, American Electric Power has made West Virginia customers pay hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden charges to bail out the money-losing and scandal-tainted OVEC coal power plants www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...

In a strongly worded rebuttal, Trump's Acting Assistant Attorney General Adam Gustafson asked a federal court to deny a motion filed by the anti-offshore wind group Save LBI that aimed to again halt construction on the Empire Wind project www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The National Offshore Wind Opposition Alliance has called on the Trump administration to end offshore wind power in the U.S. Members include the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a group with a long record of climate denial + fossil fuel funding energyandpolicy.org/trump-offsho...

Group that urged Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to axe federal funding for an offshore wind marine terminal on California’s Humboldt Bay has a long record of climate denial and fossil fuel industry funding energyandpolicy.org/trump-offsho...

Good on @iso-ne.com for making a clear statement on the damage being done here. The GOP is actively making our electric grid less reliable. 🔌💡