Dave Anderson
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Exposing attacks on clean energy by fossil fuel and utility interests with the @EnergyandPolicy. Find me at https://t.co/v3ccbOd7ql
Maine, USA
Joined July 2012
Well, Trump finally found a way bail out FirstEnergy, a part owner of Signal Peak Energy’s coal operation, eight years after the utility company doled out $5 million to a Trump dark money group and hired Corey Lewandowski as it’s secret lobbyist
energyandpolicy.org
FirstEnergy secretly spent millions of dollars to influence then-President Donald Trump as it sought a multi-billion dollar federal bailout.
This is what energy leadership looks like.
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Texas Public Policy Foundation, a fossil fuel industry front group behind attacks on offshore wind power, published a hit piece that changed the words of a well-known prose about the Holocaust into an attack on efforts to curb ocean plastic pollution
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The anti-offshore wind power Texas Public Policy Foundation has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Coal executive Joe Craft, a major Trump donor and GOP fundraiser
energyandpolicy.org
In-depth report documents how fossil fuel interests are fueling the opposition to new wind and solar farms.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative advocacy group, is hoping to use the Trump administration’s latest actions against offshore wind to shut down construction of the 800-MW Vineyard Wind 1 off the coast of Nantucket.
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RT @dananessel: Trump’s idea of “efficiency” is spending $29 million to run a coal plant for five weeks. His actions aren’t just illegal —….
mlive.com
Consumers Energy believes power customers across the Midwest should share the financial burden of keeping the J.H. Campbell coal plant open under an emergency federal order.
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RT @AntoniaJuhasz: Kelcy Warren, CEO of Dakota Access Pipeline company, Energy Transfer, gave $25 million to Trump's PAC. Just days later,….
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RT @TomBullock3: Frustrated by power outages in Lakewood? We all are. To get problems you've experienced taken seriously, formally lodge co….
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‘A Serious Misuse of My Research’: Climate Scientists Say New Trump Energy Report Botches Their Work
notus.org
“Our work has no relevance,” an astrobiologist whose research was cited in the administration’s climate change report said.
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Ramaswamy has been a vocal supporter of coal, methane gas, and nuclear during his run for Ohio governor
thecourier.com
Vivek Ramaswamy guest column: April 28
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Craft joined the CEOs of FirstEnergy and Murray Energy in lobbying President Trump to misuse Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to force the public to bail out money-losing coal plants during Trump's first term as president
energyandpolicy.org
FirstEnergy secretly spent millions of dollars to influence then-President Donald Trump as it sought a multi-billion dollar federal bailout.
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Mines in KY and WV supply owned by Craft's company supply coal to the OVEC power plants. State lawmakers in Ohio recently repealed a costly ratepayer bailout of the OVEC coal plants that was included in the state's corruption-tainted House Bill 6 in 2019
energyandpolicy.org
Ohio’s largest utilities are opposing legislation that could help rein in scandal-tainted electric bill riders that have cost customers billions of dollars.
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Kentucky coal executive Joe Craft, a big Trump donor, and his wife Kelly Craft contributed $33,000+ to Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign for Ohio governor
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RT @KMKowalski: Will Ohio regulators hold FirstEnergy utilities accountable for alleged regulatory violations related to #HB6? Orders of ma….
canarymedia.com
The company's utilities argue they obeyed Ohio’s corporate separation law and that other issues merit only minor consequences. Opponents disagree.
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Public intervenors representing residential + industrial ratepayers have even urged the PUCO to revoke FirstEnergy’s government-granted electric distribution monopoly in Ohio, which would send a strong message that utility corruption will not be tolerated in the Buckeye State.
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Criminal investigations revealed how FirstEnergy’s corruption Public Utilities of Commission of Ohio cost Ohio ratepayers millions. The @PUCOhio now has a chance to hold FirstEnergy accountable by returning hundreds of millions of dollars to ratepayers
canarymedia.com
The company's utilities argue they obeyed Ohio’s corporate separation law and that other issues merit only minor consequences. Opponents disagree.
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RT @DC_DeWitt: Commentary: Ohio’s potential for annual offshore wind power production is higher than the state’s current annual electricity….
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Ohio's potential annual offshore wind power production is higher than the state's current annual power consumption.
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RT @SimonMahan: Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants. Even without subsidies, renewable energy is sta….
scientificamerican.com
Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal
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Trump's @ENERGY is asking public to submit comments on a misleading report by five climate skeptics picked by Secretary Wright on via docket DOE-HQ-2025-0207 Problem: there is currently no such docket on
The Trump administration is focused on science, data, and facts. That is why we initiated a study authored by 5 independent experts—to create an honest, credible, data and insight-driven assessment of climate change.
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RT @dickmunson: Bill McKibben on "Power Corrupts:" "As this richly reported book makes clear, we have too many (utility) players pursuing t….
richardmunson.com
Richard Munson is the author of Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, and his latest book—Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America's Biggest Industry —will be released in June 26, 2025.
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How Trump’s taxpayer-funded political hires at the Department of Energy spend their work day….
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FirstEnergy sold its stake in Global Holding to WMB Marketing, which is owned by coal miner Wayne Boich, a figure in Ohio’s House Bill 6 corruption scandal and Pinesdale LLC, a subsidiary of the Russian-linked Gunvor Group
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The Trump administration handed the scandal-tainted Signal Peak Energy a rare regulatory win in June, with a decision that extended the life of the Bull Run coal mine in Montana
nytimes.com
Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive.
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