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'Man who killed offshore wind' now fighting solar farms and pushing fossil fuels and nuclear with a Michigan think tank funded by petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch's Stand Together Trust and Americans for Prosperity
Dave Anderson
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Dave Anderson
@cleantechfacts
Exposing attacks on clean energy by fossil fuel and utility interests with the @EnergyandPolicy. Find me at cleantechfacts.bsky.social
- $60 million in bribes. FirstEnergy. Utility ratepayers forced to bail out nuclear and coal plants. Clean energy standards rolled back. Get ready for the utility corruption trial of the century.
- Who’s ready for the long-awaited trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, who’s accused of accepting $60 million in bribes from FirstEnergy, to finally get underway this month? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/12/13/hou…
GIF - Reminder that electricity bills in Ohio could be lower if Jon Husted hadn’t helped push through the bribery-tainted House Bill 6 bailout of multi-billion dollar utility companies while he was Lt. Governor.Replying to @SenateAging.@SenJonHusted: "Traveling my state of Ohio, the past few years of dramatic inflation have really hit seniors hard. You see the cost of food, housing, and energy rise, and you see the punishing nature it has in their lives."
- 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.
- Mike DeWine and Jon Husted treated FirstEnergy like an ATM documentcloud.org/documents/2349…
- A key takeaway from FERC audit of FirstEnergy: What started off as a "$60 million bribery scandal" is now more like a $133 million scandal. Let's breakdown the money in a thread.
- Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski sidelined to NH after Washington Post + @EnergyandPolicy reported on subpoenaed records that confirmed a financial relationship with FirstEnergy, a bribe paying Ohio power company, Lewandowski has long denied energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-do… #NHPoliticsTrump aide Corey Lewandowski "put in a box" by Trump and ordered to narrow focus to New Hampshire cbsn.ws/4dUIt5u
- Thank you to the Ohio reporters who covered the Larry Householder trial in person tirelessly since it began in January @jake_zuckerman @jbalmert @lbischoff @PaulaChristian_ @MorganTrau @martyschladen @andy_chow (just to name a few)
- Woah. Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted was just named by fired FirstEnergy lobbyist Michael Dowling as an individual who may have discoverable information in a shareholder lawsuit re: the House Bill 6 bribery scheme👨⚖️ documentcloud.org/documents/2111…
- Emails subpoenaed from FirstEnergy in the @PUCOhio's HB 6 cases show Ohio Secretary of State Frank Larose's cousin hit FirstEnergy for a secret donation to a 501(c)(4) that backed Larose in 2017 documentcloud.org/documents/2524…
- Last month, FirstEnergy quietly more than doubled the rate increase it is seeking in Ohio, the utility said in an obscure quarterly report to federal regulators at FERC 💰
- Fed's sentencing memorandum for Larry Householder mentions "troubling" evidence FirstEnergy paid $3 million to the 501(c)(4) of another public official documentcloud.org/documents/2385… Cited exhibit shows the public official mentioned is Ohio Governor Mike DeWine documentcloud.org/documents/2385…
- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said last week he wasn’t part of the legislative process on HB 6. Texts released by the Ohio House in 2020 show DeWine texted + spoke with GOP lawmakers who opposed the bill during a pressure campaign to secure their support: documentcloud.org/documents/2043…
