Energy and Policy Institute

Many thanks to @iamjohnoliver for explaining on #LastWeekTonight how monopoly utilities are raising our bills, corrupting state governments, and slowing down the transition to clean energy. Watch the segment and learn more about the stories John discussed. energyandpolicy.org/john-oliver-ut…

A business partner of Louisiana Commissioner Eric Skrmetta received millions for "energy efficiency" projects, many of which failed to do much saving. Seems this may have been less about "efficiency" and more helping a buddy? lailluminator.com/2025/06/25/ene…

NEW: Investor-owned utilities are jacking up our energy bills. NorthWestern, Montana’s largest utility company, is trying to raise rates so their shareholders pocket more profit. Regulators recently approved a 28% hike. Now NorthWestern is asking for another 20% on top of that.

Lee Beaman has no apparent energy experience. But he’s Trump’s pick to help run TVA. Beaman would oversee TVA’s $12 billion budget, nuclear fleet, and long-term planning. A doozy of a thread 🧵

Blackouts and power outages could be 100 times more common in the U.S. by 2030, in part because of rising demand and an aging power generation infrastructure, according to a Department of Energy report released this week. Yet U.S. policy just took a big turn away from the…

Xcel Energy's Bob Frenzel is Minnesota's highest-paid executive among the state's three investor-owned utility companies, ranking No. 13 in our top 50 CEOs list after ranking No. 24 last year. $11 million in total compensation, a +91% change from 2024. startribune.com/minnesota-ceo-…

Newly released court docs found by Energy and Policy Institute shows DTE Energy *knowingly* contributed $100K to a dark money non-profit that helped sabotage MI Gov. Whitmer's Covid lockdown policies - contradicting their own statements of involvement. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Records made public this week in @PUCOhio cases involving FirstEnergy's corruption schemes include a complaint filed in 2024 by Ohio's Disciplinary Counsel against attorney and former PUCO chairman Samuel Randazzo dis.puc.state.oh.us/DocumentRecord…

Text messages from FirstEnergy's current Chief Accounting Officer Jason Lisowski's iPhone show Lisowski was in on communications about a secret January 2019 payment to soon to be @PUCOhio chairman Samuel Randazzo. Prosecutors later deemed the payment a bribe.

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 @dharnanoor: theguardian.com/technology/ng-…

Scientists have long found links between PM2.5 exposure and health concerns like asthma, lung disease and heart attacks. But a risk analyst backed by the American Chemistry Council now seeks to sow doubt on this science using artificial intelligence. theguardian.com/technology/ng-…

Louisiana is the latest state to fall under the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) spell. The state recently became the fourth to redefine natural gas as "green energy" - by passing ALEC model legislation. From @jack_brook96 and @JenMcDermottAP apnews.com/article/louisi…

The fossil fuel & chemical industries have jumped on the AI bandwagon, funding new tools to more easily sow doubt in pollution science, like PM2.5. Incredible scoop by @dharnanoor @GuardianUS based on internal industry emails obtained by @EnergyandPolicy theguardian.com/technology/ng-…

🚨 From @dharnanoor and @GuardianUS: An industry-backed former Trump adviser and risk analyst who has spent his career sowing doubt about pollutants is now attempting to use an AI application to amplify his perspective and weed out "propaganda." theguardian.com/technology/ng-…

The American Chemistry Council is supporting a new effort to weaponize AI to combat science it doesn't like, according to materials obtained by EPI. Story by @dharnanoor. theguardian.com/technology/ng-…