Dave Anderson
@cleantechfacts.bsky.social
Researching attacks on clean energy by fossil fuel and utility interests for the Energy and Policy Institute.
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-...
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...
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...
September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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...
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...
September 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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...
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 www.texaspolicy.com/give-a-straw...
August 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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 www.texaspolicy.com/give-a-straw...
The Disciplinary Counsel complaint accused Randazzo of stealing funds from a settlement between his former client IEU-Ohio and Dayton Power & Light, in addition to previously reported misconduct involving settlements with FirstEnergy and AEP
July 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Disciplinary Counsel complaint accused Randazzo of stealing funds from a settlement between his former client IEU-Ohio and Dayton Power & Light, in addition to previously reported misconduct involving settlements with FirstEnergy and AEP
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/DocumentReco...
@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/DocumentReco...
July 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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/DocumentReco...
@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/DocumentReco...
Trump’s DOE released a report + fact sheet today that claimed increasing wind & solar power + coal and gas plant closures + AI = electricity blackouts. But just last year, a DOE report found AI can help create a 100% clean electricity system www.energy.gov/policy/artic...
July 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Trump’s DOE released a report + fact sheet today that claimed increasing wind & solar power + coal and gas plant closures + AI = electricity blackouts. But just last year, a DOE report found AI can help create a 100% clean electricity system www.energy.gov/policy/artic...
Trump ordered the Department of Energy to develop and publish a new methodology by July 7 for identifying which unprofitable fossil fuel power plants the administration will force utility customers to bail out. A DOE order from May listed the deadline www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
July 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Trump ordered the Department of Energy to develop and publish a new methodology by July 7 for identifying which unprofitable fossil fuel power plants the administration will force utility customers to bail out. A DOE order from May listed the deadline www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
FirstEnergy CEO Steven Strah expected to testify today in @PUCOhio cases involving FirstEnergy's corruption schemes in Ohio. Strah + a now indicted lobbyist discussed FirstEnergy's "murky" dark money group in texts messages made public by @OCC4Consumers
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June 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
FirstEnergy CEO Steven Strah expected to testify today in @PUCOhio cases involving FirstEnergy's corruption schemes in Ohio. Strah + a now indicted lobbyist discussed FirstEnergy's "murky" dark money group in texts messages made public by @OCC4Consumers
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Charlie Kirk, whose far right group Turning Point USA went all in for Trump in 2024, thinks we should not celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
June 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Charlie Kirk, whose far right group Turning Point USA went all in for Trump in 2024, thinks we should not celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
"Overview of Dennis Chack Misconduct" - subpoenaed FirstEnergy records detail the reasons for former executives firing. Chack is testifying today at a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio hearing on the utility's corruption + mishandling of ratepayer money: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
June 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Overview of Dennis Chack Misconduct" - subpoenaed FirstEnergy records detail the reasons for former executives firing. Chack is testifying today at a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio hearing on the utility's corruption + mishandling of ratepayer money: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Trump appointee Alex Fitzsimmons has been tapped to lead DOE's Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response. Fitzsimmons' resume includes working on a multi-million anti-clean energy campaign funded by Koch Industries + petrochemical interests energyandpolicy.org/trump-michig...
June 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Trump appointee Alex Fitzsimmons has been tapped to lead DOE's Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response. Fitzsimmons' resume includes working on a multi-million anti-clean energy campaign funded by Koch Industries + petrochemical interests energyandpolicy.org/trump-michig...
A DOE memo from Trump appointee Alex Fitzsimmons recommended Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issue an order halting the closure of a Michigan coal plant. Fitzsimmons used to work for anti-clean energy groups funded by one of the plant's coal suppliers energyandpolicy.org/trump-michig...
June 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A DOE memo from Trump appointee Alex Fitzsimmons recommended Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issue an order halting the closure of a Michigan coal plant. Fitzsimmons used to work for anti-clean energy groups funded by one of the plant's coal suppliers energyandpolicy.org/trump-michig...
Supreme Court denies latest anti-offshore wind power petition backed by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a climate change denying think tank funded by the fossil fuel industry, and Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...
May 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Supreme Court denies latest anti-offshore wind power petition backed by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a climate change denying think tank funded by the fossil fuel industry, and Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...
A now indicted FirstEnergy lobbyist acknowledged in a confidential 2018 presentation that forcing consumers to bail out money-losing coal plants is an extremely unpopular idea. Last week, President Trump revived a previously failed effort to do just that: energyandpolicy.org/hbo-the-dark...
April 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A now indicted FirstEnergy lobbyist acknowledged in a confidential 2018 presentation that forcing consumers to bail out money-losing coal plants is an extremely unpopular idea. Last week, President Trump revived a previously failed effort to do just that: energyandpolicy.org/hbo-the-dark...
FirstEnergy wants Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to approve a $190 million rate increase for its Ohio customers. Ohio Consumers' Counsel recommends a $130 million rate decrease dis.puc.state.oh.us/DocumentReco...
March 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
FirstEnergy wants Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to approve a $190 million rate increase for its Ohio customers. Ohio Consumers' Counsel recommends a $130 million rate decrease dis.puc.state.oh.us/DocumentReco...
Electric utilities are falling behind on emission reduction targets. Read the new report from @energyandpolicy.org energyandpolicy.org/electric-uti...
March 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Electric utilities are falling behind on emission reduction targets. Read the new report from @energyandpolicy.org energyandpolicy.org/electric-uti...
FirstEnergy disclosed in a new 10-K that it'll have to continue to cooperate with the federal criminal investigation of utility corruption in Ohio for the foreseeable future, given the recent federal indictments of its former CEO + top lobbyist www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...
February 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
FirstEnergy disclosed in a new 10-K that it'll have to continue to cooperate with the federal criminal investigation of utility corruption in Ohio for the foreseeable future, given the recent federal indictments of its former CEO + top lobbyist www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...
Trump’s Department of Energy awkwardly releases words of praise for newly confirmed Secretary of Energy Chris Wright… as Wright draws criticism for granting access to DOE’s IT system to a DOGE rep who lacks security clearance 🙄 www.energy.gov/articles/wha...
February 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Trump’s Department of Energy awkwardly releases words of praise for newly confirmed Secretary of Energy Chris Wright… as Wright draws criticism for granting access to DOE’s IT system to a DOGE rep who lacks security clearance 🙄 www.energy.gov/articles/wha...
Trump previously ordered his Secretary of Energy to help halt all new federal permitting and funding for onshore and offshore wind, and participate in a one-sided political review of wind power’s impacts that will ignore wind power’s benefits www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
February 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Trump previously ordered his Secretary of Energy to help halt all new federal permitting and funding for onshore and offshore wind, and participate in a one-sided political review of wind power’s impacts that will ignore wind power’s benefits www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
In his first Secretarial Order, Chris Wright said the Department of Energy will help streamline permitting + identify undue burdens on American energy, but President Trump ordered Wright to help him stifle the U.S. wind power industry, a top source of new power in recent years.
February 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In his first Secretarial Order, Chris Wright said the Department of Energy will help streamline permitting + identify undue burdens on American energy, but President Trump ordered Wright to help him stifle the U.S. wind power industry, a top source of new power in recent years.
Live reaction from Koch Industries HQ as oil and gas industry CEO Chris Wright is confirmed as Secretary of Energy by Senate energyandpolicy.org/chris-wright...
February 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Live reaction from Koch Industries HQ as oil and gas industry CEO Chris Wright is confirmed as Secretary of Energy by Senate energyandpolicy.org/chris-wright...
Arrest warrant for former FirstEnergy CEO Charles E. Jones, who was charged with racketeering on Friday in a federal criminal case involving millions of dollars in bribes paid to public officials in Ohio through murky nonprofits and consulting firms.
January 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Arrest warrant for former FirstEnergy CEO Charles E. Jones, who was charged with racketeering on Friday in a federal criminal case involving millions of dollars in bribes paid to public officials in Ohio through murky nonprofits and consulting firms.
New Yorker turned Florida Man: It’s too cold to be outside! 🥶
Northeast: Beautiful day to be outside! 😎
Northeast: Beautiful day to be outside! 😎
January 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
New Yorker turned Florida Man: It’s too cold to be outside! 🥶
Northeast: Beautiful day to be outside! 😎
Northeast: Beautiful day to be outside! 😎