Since last year, I and Al Shaw & @bxroberts.org have investigated the linkages between Trump appointees and the industries they oversee. Today we published a searchable database containing approximately 3,200 financial disclosure forms of roughly 1500 officials.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
President Trump ousts Kristi Noem as Homeland Security chief and names Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin as her replacement https://cnn.it/4ubHabn
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Trump planned to attend a political fundraiser for his MAGA Inc. Super PAC after launching war with Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u... via @nytimes.com
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Trump’s repeal of the EPA’s science-based endangerment finding for harmful greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change checks off Item #2 on the “Action Plan” of a coal industry donor… who died in 2020 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In 2009, Donald Trump called on @barackobama.bsky.social to act now to prevent “catastrophic” climate change in a full page ad in the @nytimes.com static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf... What changed? Trump became beholden to political donors in the fossil fuel industry energyandpolicy.org/donald-trump...
10.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Trump’s attempts to undo the science-based endangerment finding for greenhouse gases emissions that cause climate change is just an extension of the fossil fuel industry’s decades long war on the EPA’s authority to protect the public from climate change www.ucs.org/resources/wh...
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The Koch network has funded an extensive network of organizations that attack climate science and clean energy and promote fossil fuels www.desmog.com/koch-network...
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Chris Wright was the CEO of a fracking services company and outspoken member of Charles Koch’s political donor network prior to his appointment as Trump’s Secretary of Energy energyandpolicy.org/chris-wright...
23.01.2026 13:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0FOIAed emails show two employees - Travis Fisher + Joshua Loucks - from the Cato Institute, a group funded by petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, transferred to DOE and worked on Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s climate denial report for the Trump administration.
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OPINION: "Ohio can begin atonement through enforced reliability standards with equipment upgrades necessary to meet those standards funded by FirstEnergy shareholders."
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Reminds me of Lumpy the Coal Man, the mascot for the coal industry group the Energy Policy Network energyandpolicy.org/coal-mining-...
23.01.2026 00:15 — 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Mike DeWine too. FirstEnergy secretly paid $3.5 million to groups like Freedom Frontier + State Solutions that backed DeWine + Husted during the 2018 elections. The duo helped FirstEnergy secure a since repealed $1 billion public bailout via the bribery-tainted HB 6 www.cleveland.com/open/2024/04...
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U.S. Senator Jon Husted is named on an amended witness list for defendants former FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones and lobbyist Michael Dowling filed ahead of their state criminal trial later this month www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Grid operator PJM tells court that the extended delay of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project halted by Trump "will cause irreparable harm to the 67 million Americans served by PJM" www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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The Environmental Protection Agency is going to stop considering the economic benefits of reducing asthma, heart disease and premature deaths as it repeals limits on air pollutants like mercury, soot and smog, according to reports:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c... 1/
Trump is the like the boy who cried “Wolf!” using national security as a false pretense to attack domestic offshore wind power. Judges are not buying this B.S.
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Customers of Ohio Edison and The Illuminating Company will also see their monthly bills rise after the bill credits expire, even though the @PUCOhio ordered Ohio Edison to lower its annual revenues by $17.4 million in a rate case order from November puco.ohio.gov/news/puco-es...
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FirstEnergy says Ohio customers will receive $65.61 in bill credits over 3 months ($21.87/month) due to a settlement resolving the @PUCOhio investigations of the utility’s corruption BUT a recent rate change will dilute the actual savings for customs www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Trump moves to pull the US from bedrock climate treaty, UN IPCC and other int'l orgs & UN agencies. In doing so, the US becomes the only country to withdraw from this particular climate agreement dating back to 1992 (UNFCCC). www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/c...
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Offshore wind developers affected by the Trump administration's freeze of five big projects on the East Coast are fighting back in court, with one developer saying its project will likely be terminated if they can't resume by the end of next week. https://to.pbs.org/4swIGnF
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FirstEnergy to pay $275 million to Ohio customers over HB 6 corruption scandal www.cleveland.com/open/2026/01...
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The Minneapolis neighborhood where federal immigration officers shot and killed a woman on Wednesday is less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by the police in 2020.
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State prosecutors plan to call Roger Sugarman, the longtime personal attorney of Samuel Randazzo, as a witness at the criminal trial of former FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones and lobbyist Michael Dowling
clerkweb.summitoh.net/PublicSite/D...
Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
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Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
FERC also continues to investigate shady capitalized expenses that it flagged in an audit, and FirstEnergy nonetheless has been recovering from customers.
19.12.2025 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0In Ohio, yes, assuming the settlement is approved. Utility regulators in other states like Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania continue efforts to make sure FirstEnergy ratepayers aren’t still paying for shady expenses FirstEnergy utilities passed onto their customers.
19.12.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0FirstEnergy agrees to pay $275 million in customer restitutions in Ohio as part of a newly announced multi-party settlement to resolve the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio's investigations into the utility's House Bill 6 corruption schemes dis.puc.state.oh.us/DocumentReco...
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Former FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones wants evidence that he deleted evidence from his work iPhone excluded from his state criminal trial, notably blaming FirstEnergy for refusing to produce the device or backup copies to the prosecution and defense www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
19.12.2025 15:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ex-FirstEnergy CEO wants to limit whistleblowing accountant’s testimony at bribery trial
By: Jake Zuckerman & Arielle Kass
signalohio.org/firstenergy-...
