Dave Anderson
@cleantechfacts.bsky.social
Researching attacks on clean energy by fossil fuel and utility interests for the Energy and Policy Institute.
Ticked Off: How the Trump Admin is Giving Your Money Away to Fossil Fuel Companies www.sierraclub.org/burningmoney
Ticked Off: How the Trump admin is giving your money away to fossil fuels companies
www.sierraclub.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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…
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Can’t wait to hear what all the anti-offshore wind folks who align with Trump think of this new plan…
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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.
I broke the news of the screening.
Thanks for reading, Congress.
Internal Agency Memo Calls for Political Reviews of Solar, Wind Projects
The widely circulating document lists more than 68 activities newly subject to upper-level review.
heatmap.news
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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.
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-...
PUCO stops FirstEnergy from making Ohio customers pay $108 million for a corporate accounting foul-up flagged by regulatory audits
FirstEnergy wants to add $108 million to the rates paid by customers of its Ohio utilities so the company can avoid taking a loss for a corporate accounting foul-up flagged repeatedly in audits by sta...
energyandpolicy.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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...
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www.sec.gov
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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...
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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
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
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Trump cites ‘emergency’ to keep Michigan coal plant online into winter
The Energy Department’s orders to keep the J.H. Campbell plant running are driving up costs and pollution. States and advocates are challenging the move…
www.canarymedia.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
#energysky
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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
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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
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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.
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heatmap.news/energy/coal-...
Americans will pay a steep price for it.
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heatmap.news/energy/coal-...
Trump Wants to Prop Up Coal Plants. They Keep Breaking Down.
According to a new analysis shared exclusively with Heatmap, coal’s equipment-related outage rate is about twice as high as wind’s.
heatmap.news
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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-...
Americans will pay a steep price for it.
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heatmap.news/energy/coal-...
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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.
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.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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.
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…
NEW:
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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...
a toilet with money sticking out of it and the words `` down the drain '' .
ALT: a toilet with money sticking out of it and the words `` down the drain '' .
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Trump’s Department of Energy is seeking applicants for $525 million in public funding for coal plants infrastructure-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx...
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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...
Report shows scandal-plagued Ohio utility made $108 million in errors. It wants customers to pay • Ohio Capital Journal
Scandal-plagued FirstEnergy wants to make customers pay $108 million it used for things like lobbying but said was for construction.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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...
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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...
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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
ALEC Pushes Power Grid “Stability” Bills to Favor Fossil Fuels Over Renewables - EXPOSEDbyCMD
This past legislative session, at least 15 “grid reliability” and “grid stability” bills based on ALEC model policies were introduced in statehouses across the country.
www.exposedbycmd.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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-...
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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
Secrecy fight heats up in FirstEnergy bribery case
Defense attorneys are pushing for secrecy in the FirstEnergy bribery case that Ohio's AG called the “corruption case of the century.”
signalohio.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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
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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
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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-...
FirstEnergy wants to make Ohio customers pay $108 million for its corporate accounting foul-up
FirstEnergy wants to add $108 million to the rates paid by customers of its Ohio utilities so the company can avoid taking a loss for a corporate accounting foul-up flagged repeatedly in audits by sta...
energyandpolicy.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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...
www.americafirstpolicy.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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...
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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...
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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...
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Ahead of their criminal trial scheduled for January, former FirstEnergy executives ask court to prohibit certain witness testimony.
Former FirstEnergy execs continue push to limit testimony in HB 6 bribery trial
Ahead of their criminal trial scheduled for January, former FirstEnergy executives ask court to prohibit certain witness testimony.
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Ahead of their criminal trial scheduled for January, former FirstEnergy executives ask court to prohibit certain witness testimony.
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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.
‘They’re not VIPs’: Former FirstEnergy execs get special treatment in Ohio corruption case
Former FirstEnergy executives receive special privacy protections in an Ohio corruption case, keeping significant evidence sealed from public view.
www.cleveland.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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.
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Florida Power and Light needs that $10 billion rate increase to help cover Trump's ballroom.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Florida Power and Light needs that $10 billion rate increase to help cover Trump's ballroom.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
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...
Utility and fossil fuel money lurks behind Maine Question 1 attack on absentee voting
The Republican State Leadership Committee, the top donor supporting the Question 1 ballot referendum that would make it harder for Maine voters to vote absentee, has raked in money from the utility an...
energyandpolicy.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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...