A private equity company that *checks notes* failed to operate and maintain a water treatment facility and upon inspection there was found to be a build-up of sludge and bloodworms (🤢 ) now wants to purchase the New Mexico Gas Company. What could go wrong? energyandpolicy.org/new-mexico-g...

Southwest Gas wants to ‘modernize’ how it sets rates. Critics fear risks to customers - The Nevada Independent Southwest Gas wants to ‘modernize’ how it sets rates. Critics fear risks to customers. Read more from The Nevada Independent.

Southwest Gas will benefit while Nevadans take on all the risks of rising costs and rapid gas buildout with SB417 - formula rates ++

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Utility-backed climate framework could weaken emissions targets EPRI, a utility-funded group, proposed a new framework that could enable utilities to scale back climate targets

The Electric Power Research Institute recently intro'd a framework for utilities that could end up allowing utilities to scale back on their climate targets. The problem? EPRI's board of directors is made up of utility execs and gets funding from industry. energyandpolicy.org/epri-smartar...

Utilities, corporations spend big on Michigan politics. Ballot push aims to stop them A new campaign is targeting the November 2026 ballot for a proposal that would seek to curb the influence wielded in Lansing by big utilities like DTE and Consumers Energy.

Michigan voters could decide next year whether to ban political spending by monopoly utilities like DTE Energy and Consumers Energy, which have moved massive sums of campaign cash and dark money through Lansing for years www.mlive.com/politics/202...

Limos, liquor, hotels among NV Energy’s millions in ‘inappropriate charges’ IDed by watchdog - The Nevada Independent Limos, liquor, hotels among NV Energy’s millions in ‘inappropriate charges’ IDed by watchdog. Read more from The Nevada Independent.

Diabolical moves by NV Energy asking to charge ratepayers for luxury hotels, limo rides + payments to parent company Berkshire Hathaway in the midst of NVE's huge overcharge investigation and skyrocketing utility bills. Amazing work by Alonzo @thenvindy.com thenevadaindependent.com/article/limo...

Utility CEOs get raises as companies roll back diversity, environmental pay incentives and rates increase In 2024, investor-owned utilities paid their chief executive officers a total of over $530 million, according to an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute based on the latest proxy […]

🚨 A new report from the Energy and Policy Institute analyzes investor-owned utility CEO compensation - which totaled over $530 million based on 2024 proxy statements provided by utility companies. energyandpolicy.org/utility-ceos...

Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury lifestyle expenses Utilities seek to charge customers for lobbying, corporate advertising, and unnecessary expenses that do not benefit customers.

As rising utility bills strain U.S. households, a new report from EPI found that the nation's largest monopoly utilities routinely seek to charge customers for private jets, corporate branding, and other company perks.
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Carrboro, NC launched the first-ever climate accountability lawsuit against an electric utility - Duke Energy - following @energyandpolicy.bsky.social report on Duke's decades long climate deception campaigns.

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