Utilities
Will bitcoin and data centers risk US climate goals?
US energy use has been flat. But new industries are forcing a boost in utility forecasts for demand, potentially harming efforts to cut emissions.
Utilities
US energy use has been flat. But new industries are forcing a boost in utility forecasts for demand, potentially harming efforts to cut emissions.
Utilities
A Floodlight analysis finds a historic surge in power company fraud and corruption. The lies and bribes cost consumers — and threaten the planet.
Fueling Disinformation
A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither publishes critical stories about the utility.
Polluting Democracy
A joint investigation by Floodlight and Capital B shows millions of dollars flowed from utilities to Black leaders and their groups since at least 2009.
Utilities
Plaintiffs in the challenge to Georgia Public Service Commission’s statewide elections appear headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Utilities
Billions in new projects to reduce emissions means ratepayers must foot the bill while utilities earn guaranteed, often double-digit, profits.
Utilities
As the new head of a group of conservation voters in Georgia, Brionté McCorkle wanted to sit down with regulators who oversee the state’s utilities to talk about carbon emissions.
Utilities
Lobbying group’s pushback is out of step with voters and raises questions about industry commitment to reducing pollution
Utilities
Electric utilities spent billions after 2014’s polar vortex to ensure power plants and the grid could handle extreme cold, but this winter it still wasn’t enough.
Utilities
A Los Angeles-area air board faces questions over grant spending amid some of the worst air pollution in the US.
Utilities
The gas company sowed panic in a bare-knuckle marketing campaign after a court ordered the shutdown of its STL pipeline.
Utilities
Customers saddled with paying 600 times the usual price for energy as regulators are accused of being too close to the industry they monitor.
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When residents in Union Hill, Virginia, decried the pipeline as a form of environmental racism, the energy company insisted it wasn’t.
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Residents around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were paid to show support for natural gas trucks at community hearings
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The story behind Florida’s new laws that strip cities of their ability to fight climate change.
Utilities
In states like Kansas, energy companies want to impose charges on people who produce their own power with rooftop arrays