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To Fight Clean Power Plan, Fossil Fuel Companies Paid for Private Meetings...
Read time: 5 minsJust one week before Republican state attorneys general asked federal courts to reject the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which requires states to regulate emissions from electricity...
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Weeks Before Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Intensified, Big Oil Pushed for...
Read time: 8 minsIn the two months leading up to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to issue to the Dakota Access pipeline project an allotment of Nationwide 12 permits (NWP) — a de facto...
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Southern Company's Kemper Coal Plant Could Get Billions in Tax Credit Bail-Out
Read time: 5 minsBy Dan Zegart from Climate Investigations CenterIf Donald Trump really wants to get rid of federal corporate welfare, he should be frantically tweeting against a congressional plan...
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Southern Company Says Its Delayed Kemper Power Plant Not Viable as Coal Plant
Read time: 10 minsThis is a guest post by Dan Zegart, originally posted on Climate Investigations Center.In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power...
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Congressional Energy and Climate Committees Are Loaded with Ex-Fossil Fuel...
Read time: 8 minsThough the U.S. Congress has been in session for two months, much of the policy action which has taken place since Donald Trump assumed the presidency on January 20 has centered around...
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Brain Drain: Engineers and Managers Flee Southern Company’s Troubled Kemper...
Read time: 12 minsThis is a guest post by Dan Zegart of the Climate Investigations CenterWith builder Southern Company still promising that the Kemper power plant will go online soon, a group of key...
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Mississippi Regulators Veto Any More Money for Southern Company's Kemper...
Read time: 5 minsBy Dan Zegart, originally published at Climate Investigations CenterIn a historic vote this morning, Mississippi state regulators slammed the brakes on the Kemper coal power plant,...
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These Companies Plan to Expand Coal Power Worldwide by 43 Percent
Read time: 3 minsIn Paris in 2015, more than 195 nations committed to slowing the rise of global warming to less than 3.6°F (2°C). In 2016, renewable energy saw unprecedented growth around the world....
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'Clean Coal' Officially Dead in Mississippi as Southern Company Battered by...
Read time: 4 minsBy Dan Zegart, crossposted from Climate Investigations Center.Clean coal officially died in Mississippi today as state regulators voted unanimously to issue an official order denying...
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New Fraud Allegations Emerge at Troubled 'Clean Coal' Project As Southern Co....
Read time: 15 minsSouthern Co. is accused of fraudulently misrepresenting the prospects for its troubled “clean coal” project in Kemper County, Mississippi in several legal filings this summer.Southern...
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Despite Huge Losses and Its own Bungling, Southern Company Wants to Complete...
Read time: 11 minsBy Dan Zegart, crossposted from Climate Investigations CenterWith Southern Company’s board voting today to green light the completion of the Vogtle nuclear power plant, the prospect...
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Trump Admin Pushes More 'Clean Coal' Spending as Justice Department...
Read time: 8 minsIn April, the Department of Justice informed Southern Company that it was under investigation “related to the Kemper County energy facility” in Mississippi, where Southern had spent...
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Labor Helps Obama Energy Secretary Push and Profit from 'Net Zero' Fossil Fuels
Read time: 16 minsProgressive activists have called for a Green New Deal, a linking of the U.S. climate and labor movements to create an equitable and decarbonized economy and move away from fossil...
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FirstEnergy Scandal is Latest Example of Utility Corruption, Deceit
Read time: 13 minsBy Matt Kasper, originally published at Energy and Policy InstituteFederal agents arrested Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder, along with several lobbyists, on July 21 on...
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Electric Utilities Are Slow to Address the Climate Crisis, Reports Indicate
Read time: 10 minsThe electric utility sector is largely lagging when it comes to responding to the climate emergency, both in terms of rapidly slashing globe-warming emissions and planning for climate...
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