President Donald Trump has nominated Lee Beaman, a Nashville auto executive, Republican mega-donor, and the subject of sexual misconduct allegations, to the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Enter your monthly electric bill to see how much your utility keeps as profit.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity waged a multi-million dollar campaign to impact the 2008 elections. The organization spent $2 million at the Democratic and Republican National ...

The Edison Electric Institute is an inherently political organization, and a powerful one. At $90 million, its budget is the highest it has been in over a decade – a budget that the nation’s electric ...

The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC,) which advocates, academics, and reporters have referred to as a “rubber stamp” and “lapdog” of the investor-owned utilities, has a history of approving ...

NextEra contends customers will benefit from the acquisition. Lawmakers and advocates caution NextEra’s long track record of rate increases and scandals. (Photo illustration. EPI file.) America’s ...

Households and businesses served by investor-owned utilities pay billions of dollars in profits to utility investors each year. Until now, no one has put a precise number on how much of an electric ...

America’s monopoly electric and gas utilities are using the money that they collect from customers’ monthly bills to fund political machines that push legislation, curry favor with regulators, and ...

Michigan lawmakers facing mounting pressure to rein in DTE Energy lambasted the utility for days-long power outages in August and urged regulators to strike down its 8.8% electric rate increase ...

Gas and electric utility front groups have spent over $2.4 million over the past 4 years on social media advertisements, many of which include targeted messaging to mislead customers on critical ...

A newly-formed 501(c)4 nonprofit is behind efforts to pass a bill that would enact draconian siting requirements for new solar and wind generation, impose additional permit requirements for developers ...

Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL) introduced legislation last week that directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to prohibit utilities from recovering political expenses from ...